n. 1. (Bot.) Same as Quitch grass. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Figuratively: A vice; a taint; an evil. [ 1913 Webster ]

To pick the vicious quitch
Of blood and custom wholly out of him. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Properly quick grass, being probably so called from its vigorous growth, or from its tenacity of life. See Quick, and cf. Couch grass. ] (Bot.) A perennial grass (Agropyrum repens) having long running rootstalks, by which it spreads rapidly and pertinaciously, and so becomes a troublesome weed. Also called couch grass, quack grass, quick grass, twitch grass. See Illustration in Appendix. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) Quitch grass. [ 1913 Webster ]