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Clip   /klɪp/   Listen
noun
Clip  n.  
1.
An embrace.
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.
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.
7.
A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip. (Colloq. U. S.)
8.
(Mach.) A part, attachment, or appendage, for seizing, clasping, or holding, an object, as a cable, etc.
9.
(Angling) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing. (Scot. & Prov. Eng.)
10.
A rapid gait. "A three-minute clip."


verb
Clip  v. t.  (past & past part. clipped; pres. part. clipping)  
1.
To embrace, hence; to encompass. "O... that Neptune's arms, who clippeth thee about, Would bear thee from the knowledge of thyself."
2.
To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin. "Sentenced to have his ears clipped."
3.
To curtail; to cut short. "All my reports go with the modest truth; No more nor clipped, but so." "In London they clip their words after one manner about the court, another in the city, and a third in the suburbs."


Clip  v. i.  To move swiftly; usually with indefinite it. "Straight flies as chek, and clips it down the wind."





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... procured him the inner happiness and peace, the elevation of thought and habit, that long years spent in love and meditation had procured for Spinoza and Marcus Aurelius. Some slight intellectual satisfaction there may be in the doing of evil; but none the less does each wrongful deed clip the wings of our thoughts, till at length they can only crawl amidst all that is fleeting and personal. To commit an act of injustice is to prove we have not yet attained the happiness within our grasp. And in evil—reduce things to their primal elements, and you shall find that even ...
— Wisdom and Destiny • Maurice Maeterlinck
... manuscripts are written matter, they must be sent sealed as first-class mail at letter rates of postage. For the return of rejected articles stamps may be attached to the cover page by means of a clip, or a self-addressed envelope with stamps affixed may be enclosed. The writer's name and address should always be given on the envelope in which the manuscript is sent ...
— How To Write Special Feature Articles • Willard Grosvenor Bleyer
... these dropping terraces, so populous with slabs and so closely set with turfed mounds and oblongs of early flowering annuals and bedding plants. Mr. Brown had to get down on his hands and knees, with gardener's shears, to clip the turfed borders and banks, and take a sickle to the hummocks. Thus he could dig out a root of dandelion with the trowel kept ever in his belt, consider the spreading crocuses and valley lilies, whether to spare ...
— Greyfriars Bobby • Eleanor Atkinson
... power but kept pace with his wishes! Why, friend! he'd give the whole world to his soldiers. But at Vienna, brother!—here's the grievance,— What politic schemes do they not lay to shorten His arm, and where they can to clip his pinions. Then these new dainty requisitions! these Which this same Questenberg ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller
... Rox in the shafts, and while the coupe spun over the asphalt at a smart clip Lloyd tried to remember where she had heard of the address before. Suddenly she snapped her fingers; she knew the case, had even been assigned to ...
— A Man's Woman • Frank Norris


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