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CLIP, v.t.

1. To cut off with shears or scissors; to separate by a sudden stroke; especially to cut off the ends or sides of a thing, to make it shorter or narrower, in distinction from shaving and paring, which are performed by rubbing the instrument close to the thing shaved; as, to clip the hair; to clip wings.

But love had clipped his wings and cut him short.

2. To diminish coin by paring the edge.

3. To curtail; to cut short.

4. To confine, limit, restrain, or hold; to hug.

To clip it, is a vulgar phrase in New England for to run with speed. So cut issued; cut on, run fast. This seems to be the meaning in Dryden.

Some falcon stoops at what her eye designed,

And with her eagerness the quarry missed,

Straight flies at check, and clips it down the wind.

This sense would seem to be allied to that of leap.

CLIP, n.

1. A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip.

2. An embrace; that is, a throwing the arms round.


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CLIP, v.t.

1. To cut off with shears or scissors; to separate by a sudden stroke; especially to cut off the ends or sides of a thing, to make it shorter or narrower, in distinction from shaving and paring, which are performed by rubbing the instrument close to the thing shaved; as, to clip the hair; to clip wings.

But love had clipped his wings and cut him short.

2. To diminish coin by paring the edge.

3. To curtail; to cut short.

4. To confine, limit, restrain, or hold; to hug.

To clip it, is a vulgar phrase in New England for to run with speed. So cut issued; cut on, run fast. This seems to be the meaning in Dryden.

Some falcon stoops at what her eye designed,

And with her eagerness the quarry missed,

Straight flies at check, and clips it down the wind.

This sense would seem to be allied to that of leap.

CLIP, n.

1. A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip.

2. An embrace; that is, a throwing the arms round.

CLIP, n.

  1. 1. A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip. – New England.
  2. An embrace; that is, a throwing the arms round. – Sidney.
  3. A sheep-shearing.

CLIP, v.t. [Sax. clypan; Dan. klipper; Sw. klippa. The sense seems to be, to strike, to cut off by a sudden stroke. The Danish word signifies not only to cut off with scissors, but to wink or twinkle with the eyes. In our popular dialect, a clip is a blow or stroke; as, to hit one a clip. Cut is used in a like sense. The radical sense then is, to strike or drive with a sudden effort, thrust or spring.]

  1. To cut off with shears or scissors; to separate by a sudden stroke; especially to cut off the ends or sides of a thing, to make it shorter or narrower, in distinction from shaving and paring, which are performed by rubbing the instrument close to the thing shaved; as, to clip the hair; to clip wings. But love had clipped his wings and cut him short. – Dryden.
  2. To diminish coin by paring the edge. – Locke.
  3. To curtail; to cut short. – Addison.
  4. To confine, limit, restrain, or hold; to hug. [Little used.] – Shak. To clip it, is a vulgar phrase in New England for to run with speed. So cut is used; cut on, run fast. This seems to be the meaning of Dryden: Some falcon stoops at what her eye designed, / And with her eagerness the quarry missed, / Straight flies at check, and clips it down the wind. This sense would seem to be allied to that of leap.

Clip
  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 move swiftly; -- usually with indefinite it.

    Straight flies as chek, and clips it down the wind.
    Dryden.

  3. An embrace.

    Sir P. Sidney.
  4. A part, attachment, or appendage, for seizing, clasping, or holding, an object, as a cable, etc.
  5. To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin.

    Sentenced to have his ears clipped.
    Macaulay.

  6. A cutting; a shearing.
  7. A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.

    [Scot. *** Prov. Eng.]
  8. 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.

  9. The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool.
  10. A rapid gait.

    "A three-minute clip." Kipling.
  11. A clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc.
  12. An embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree.

    Knight.
  13. 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.
  14. A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip.

    [Colloq. U. S.]
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Clip

CLIP, verb transitive

1. To cut off with shears or scissors; to separate by a sudden stroke; especially to cut off the ends or sides of a thing, to make it shorter or narrower, in distinction from shaving and paring, which are performed by rubbing the instrument close to the thing shaved; as, to clip the hair; to clip wings.

But love had clipped his wings and cut him short.

2. To diminish coin by paring the edge.

3. To curtail; to cut short.

4. To confine, limit, restrain, or hold; to hug.

To clip it, is a vulgar phrase in New England for to run with speed. So cut issued; cut on, run fast. This seems to be the meaning in Dryden.

Some falcon stoops at what her eye designed,

And with her eagerness the quarry missed,

Straight flies at check, and clips it down the wind.

This sense would seem to be allied to that of leap.

CLIP, noun

1. A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip

2. An embrace; that is, a throwing the arms round.

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