From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Clip \Clip\ (kl[i^]p), v. i.
To move swiftly; -- usually with indefinite it.
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Straight flies as chek, and clips it down the wind.
--Dryden.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Clip \Clip\, n.
1. An embrace. --Sir P. Sidney.
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2. A cutting; a shearing.
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3. The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop
of wool.
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4. A clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc.
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5. An embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron
strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree. --Knight.
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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.
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7. A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip.
[Colloq. U. S.]
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8. (Mach.) A part, attachment, or appendage, for seizing,
clasping, or holding, an object, as a cable, etc.
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9. (Angling) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in
salmon fishing. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
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10. A rapid gait. "A three-minute clip." --Kipling.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Clip \Clip\ (kl[i^]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clipped (kl[i^]pt);
p. pr. & vb. n. Clipping.] [OE. cluppen, clippen, to
embrace, AS. clyran to embrace, clasp; cf. OHG. kluft tongs,
shears, Icel, kl[=y]pa to pinch, squeeze, also OE. clippen to
cut, shear, Dan. klippe to clip, cut, SW. & Icel. klippa.]
1. To embrace, hence; to encompass.
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O . . . that Neptune's arms, who clippeth thee
about,
Would bear thee from the knowledge of thyself.
--Shak.
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2. To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the
hair; to clip coin.
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Sentenced to have his ears clipped. --Macaulay.
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3. To curtail; to cut short.
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All my reports go with the modest truth;
No more nor clipped, but so. --Shak.
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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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