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Webster 1913 Edition

Clip

Clip

(klĭp)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Clipped
(klĭpt)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Clipping
.]
[OE.
cluppen
,
clippen
, to embrace, AS.
clyran
to embrace, clasp; cf. OHG.
kluft
tongs, shears, Icel,
klȳpa
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.
Shakespeare
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.
Shakespeare
In London they
clip
their words after one manner about the court, another in the city, and a third in the suburbs.
Swift.

Clip

(klĭp)
,
Verb.
I.
To move swiftly; – usually with indefinite it.
Straight flies as chek, and
clips
it down the wind.
Dryden.

Clip

,
Noun.
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.]

Webster 1828 Edition

Clip

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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