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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Quitch

/(kwĭch)/ · IPA /kwɪt͡ʃ/
01 n. Same as Quitch grass.
  1. 1.
    Same as Quitch grass.(Bot.) See: Quitch grass
  2. 2.
    Figuratively: A vice; a taint; an evil.
    “To pick the vicious quitch Of blood and custom wholly out of him.” Tennyson.