Clip (klip), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clipped (klipt); p. pr. & vb. n. Clipping.] [OE. cluppen, clippen, to embrace, AS. clyran to embrace, clasp; cf. OHG. kluft tongs, shears, Icel, kl&ymacr;pa to pinch, squeeze, also OE. clippen to cut, shear, Dan. klippe to clip, cut, SW. & Icel. klippa.]
1.
To embrace, hence; to encompass.
O . . . that Neptune's arms, who clippeth thee about,
Would bear thee from the knowledge of thyself.
Shak.
2.
To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin.
Sentenced to have his ears clipped.
Macaulay.
3.
To curtail; to cut short.
All my reports go with the modest truth;
No more nor clipped, but so.
Shak.
In London they clip their words after one manner about the court, another in the city, and a third in the suburbs.
Swift.
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Clip (klip), v. i.
To move swiftly; -- usually with indefinite it.
Straight flies as chek, and clips it down the wind.
Dryden.
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Clip, n.
1.
An embrace. Sir P. Sidney.
2.
A cutting; a shearing.
3.
The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool.
4.
A clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc.
5.
An embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree. Knight.
6. (Far.)
A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; -- called also toe clip and beak. Youatt.
7.
A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip. [Colloq. U. S.]
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Clip, n.
1. (Mach.)
A part, attachment, or appendage, for seizing, clasping, or holding, an object, as a cable, etc.
2. (Angling)
A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
3.
A rapid gait. "A three-minute clip." Kipling.
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