clip 
Let's clippe, our hands ; lit- thus observe my vowe. 
Miu-nldii, Antonio :md Mclliilii, I., V. 1. 
Like :i fountain falling rouml me, 
Which \iitli nilvcr waters thin 
t'(i> u little water Xaiad iiittiiii; .smilingly itliin. 
Mr*, llnnrtiiii'j. Lust Bower. 
2. To hold together by pressure, as with a 
spring, screw, <u- bandage. 
clip 1 (klip), u. [< dip 1 , i'. Senses :i-6 may pos- 
sibly belong to flip-, .] If. An embrace. 
Nut lined to fro/.eii ///:. 
.s'iV /'. .V.'I/H.'./, Astrophel and Stella. 
2. A grasp; clasp; grip, as of a machine. 
3. A device for closing a vent in a machine. 
Thf rli'/i i opened mill tin- t,l. uiu allowed to escape for 
ten minutes, when the clip is closed mid the tulie pu-Ju .1 
iluivii iiunin to the bottom ,,r tlie apparatus [ Foil's uteri! 
iZcr|. ISllrl, \ 1 1, null::,.. I, ::l M I: I . .SVlV ,l.v.<, l\ . IW. 
4. In farriery, a projecting flange on the upper 
surface of a horseshoe, which 
partially embraces the wall of 
the hoo'f. 5. A metnl clasp or 
conlinino piece used to connect 
the parts of a carriage-gew, or 
to hold the hook of a whipple- 
tree. 6. A clasp or spring- 
holder for letters, papers, etc. 
The four candles HIV placed In a cor- 
responding numlier of clips or candle- 
holders. 
W. />'. l'r,:<:;:li, Klect. Invent., p. 487. 
clip" (klip), r. ; pret. and pp. Hi/iprtl (sometimes 
dipt), ppr. clipping. [< ME. clippen, < Icel. 
klippa = Sw. Wtppa = Dan. klippt, clip, shear, 
cut. Connection with clip 1 is uncertain.] I. 
trans. 1. To cut off or sever with a sharp in- 
strument, as shears or scissors : trim or make 
shorter by cutting : as, to clip the hair ; to clip 
a bird's wings. 
Clipping papers or darning his stockings. Sir! ft. 
Her neat small room, adorn'd with maiden-taste, 
A clipp'd French puppy, first of favourites, graced. 
Crabbe, Works, I. 111. 
Arbours dipt and cut Tennyson, Amphion. 
2 
coin 
xxiv. 
of a horse- 
shoe, o. Clip of a 
hippletrcc. 
1049 
Hud my dull -"ill hut wings as well as they, 
How would I spring from earth, :m.i ///* away 
As wise Astra-a did, and scorn this ball of i-lay ! 
(Jinn-leu, Emblems, v. 13. 
Clipi it down the wind. /' > ' 
clip 4 (kliii), r. A dialectal form of clepc. 
clip-candlestick (klip'kan'dl-stik), n. An 
old form of candlestick, lilted with a pair of 
forceps or nipper- inMend of, or in addition to, 
a socket. The object of the forceps wa to hold 
light, which was too slender und irregular in shape to 
taad st'-ao!il\ in a .<" KI !. 
clip-chair (klip'char), n. A kind of chair used 
on some English railways to secure a rail to a 
metallic sleeper. 
clipeus (klip'e-us),n.; pi. clipci (-i). Uceclypeug. 
clip-hook (Kh'p'huk), H. Same as sister-hook. 
clipper 1 (klip'er), . [< ME. dipper, </(>// 
(= Iccl. Icliiipari = Sw. klippure = Dan. l.-li/i- 
l>< ;); < dijft, r., + -f/'l.] 1. One who or that 
which clips; especially, one who reduces tin- 
size, value, or importance of anything by clip- 
ping it. 
And if they l>e such clippemot regal power and si 
of the IJIWB, how they stand atteeted to the law Kivin^' 
1'arlament, yourselves, worthy Peeres und r.iiini>! 
best testitle. Millun, rlnii-clMiovenimeiit, ii., r.in. 
The value is pared off from it into the clipper'* pocket. 
Locke, Further Considerations eonc crning Value of Money. 
2. A cutting-tool of the nature of shears; spe- 
cifically, a tool with rotating or reciprocating 
knives used for cutting hair, and especially for 
clipping horses. See dip 
Cllpplng-iluaiv 
jl, lemitcd ulitc ; 
' 
. To diminish by cutting or paring : as, to clip 
oin ; " clipped silver," Afacaulay, Hist. Eug., 
England's fate, 
Like a clipp'd guinea, trembles in the scale. 
Sheridan, The Critic, ii. 2. 
3. To shorten ; curtail ; cut short ; impair by 
lessening. 
For, if my husband take you, and take you thus 
A counterfeit, one that would clip his credit, 
Out of his honour he must kill you presently. 
Fletcher, Rule a Wife, v. 5. 
To clip the divine prerogative. South, Sermons, V. v. 
Hence 4. To pronounce (words) in a short- 
ened form, or with abbreviation. 
They clip their words after one manner about the court, 
another in the city, and a third in the suburbs. 
Sn-i/i, Improving the English Tongue. 
Mrs. Mayoress clipped the king's English. 
Additon, Spectator. 
Voltaire says very wittily of the English that they 
*'gain two hours a day by clipping words." He refers to 
the habit of saying can't for can not, don't for do not, and 
other like abbreviations. 
J. S. Hart, ComiH>sition and Rhetoric, Hyperbole. 
To clip the wings, literally, to cut a bird's wings short 
so as to deprive it of tlie power of night ; figuratively, to 
put a check on one's ambition ; render one less able to 
execute his schemes or realize his aspirations. 
But love had clipped his wintjs and cut him short. 
Dryden, Fables. 
Philosophy will clip an Angel's vring*, 
Conquer all mysteries by rule and line. 
K:-nt*. Lamia, ii. 
H. in trims. To cut hair. 
Wei koude he letcn blood, and clippe and shave. 
Chaucer, Miller's Tale, 1. 140. 
Clip 2 (klip), . [< clip%, t).] 1. The quantity 
of wool snorn at a single shearing of sheep ; a 
season's shearing. 
In 1881, the clip of wool in Oregon was above 8,000,000 
pounds, and it is said to be ranking with the best fleeces 
that reach the Eastern factories. 
W. Ban-own, Oregon, p. 345. 
2. A blow or stroke with the hand. [Colloq.] 
It's jest a kick here, and a cuff there, and a twitch by 
the ear in t other place ; one a ahovin on 'em this way, 
and another hitthf on 'em a dip. 
H. n. Stom, Oldtowu, p. 84. 
3_. pi. Shears, especially sheep-shears, 
clip* (klip), r. t. ; pret. and pp. clipped (some- 
times dipt), ppr. dipping. [Usually associated 
with dipV, cut (cf. cut, v. i., in a similar sense), 
but prob. in part of other origin ; cf. LG. (> G. 
dial.) 1,-lfjipi-n, run fast, as a horse, a secon- 
dary form of Happen = E. dap 1 : see clap 1 , 
which also connotes quick motion. See clip- 
per'*.] To move swiftly, as a falcon, a horse, 
or a yacht: often with an indefinite it. 
. . 
clipper^ (klip'er), n. [Usually associated with 
flipper 1 (cf . cutter, a vessel, in a similar sense), 
but cf. D. and LG. klepper (> G. and Dan. /,/</.- 
per), a fast horse, a nag, < kleppen, run fast: 
see cHp 3 . The Dan. klipper, a vessel, is prob. 
from E.] 1. A sailing vessel built with very 
sharp lines, more or less raking masts, and 
great spread of canvas, with a view to speed : 
a development of a model for the mercantile 
marine first built at Baltimore, U. 8., and call- 
ed the Baltimore clipper. The clippers, becoming 
famous for quick runs, and occasionally making letter 
time than the steamers, were especially employed in the 
Smith American frnit-trade, in the China trade for car- 
goes of teaand opium, and in the early California traffic by 
the Cape Horn route (1849-50). Ahto called clipper-ship. 
The knife-edged clipper with her ruffled spmr*. 
6. '. Holmet, The Island Ruin. 
2. A person or an animal that runs swiftly, or 
looks as if capable of running swiftly ; a very 
smart person ; something first-rate. [Colloq.] 
I never saw your equal, and I've met some clippert in 
my time. Thackeray. 
3. An Australian bird of the genus Ephthia- 
nura : as, the wag-tail clipper, E. albifrons. 4. 
The larva of species of Sialte, a genus of neu- 
ropterous insects, used for bait by anglers. 
Also called, in the United States, crawler, dob- 
son, and hellgratntnite. 
clipper-built (klip'er-bilt), a. Naut., built after 
the type of a clipper. 
clipper-ship (klip'er-ship), n. Same as clip- 
per*, 1. 
Clippfish (klip'fish), H. [= D. klipvisch = G. 
klippjisch, < Norw. Dan. klipfisk (= Sw. l-lipp- 
Jtek). < Mippe, rock (see cliff 1 ), + Jisk = E. 
fish.] Pisn, chiefly cod, split open, salted, and 
dried ; stock-fish. Consular Report. 
clipping 1 ! (klip'ing), n. [< ME. clippitu/, clup- 
ptng; verbal n. of clip 1 , r.] The act of em- 
bracing. 
What dipping was there ! 
With kind embraces, and jobbing of faces. 
Kobin Uoad and Maid Marian (Child's Ballads, V. 374). 
clipping 1 ! (klip'ing), ,p. a. [Ppr. of clipi, P.] 1. 
Emoraeing; encircling. 
Now runs and takes her in his clipping arms. 
Sir P. Sidney. 
2. In In r.. clasping, as two hands. See con- 
joined. 
clipping 2 (klip'ing), n. JX ME. clippingc; ver- 
bal n. of clip%, .] 1. The act of cutting or 
shearing off. 
This design of new coinage Is just of the nature of /,"/; 
ping. Jjocke. 
2. A sheep-shearing. [Scotland and North. 
Eng.] 3. That which is clipped off or out ; a 
piece separated by clipping: as, tailors' clip- 
pings ; a newspaper clipping. 
The clippings of our beards, and the parings of our nails. 
Locke. 
clipping 3 (klip'ing), p. a. [Ppr. of clip 8 , r.] 
1. Swift: as, a clipping pace. [Colloq.] 2. 
Smart; showy; first-rate. [Colloq.] 
What clipping girls there were in that barouche ' 
Cornhill Una. 
Clisiocampa 
clipping-machine (klip'inK-nio-shen'), n. A 
power-machine used in dipping horses and 
sheep. 
clipping-shears (klip 'ing - 
slier/.), n. pi. Shears for dip- 
ping huir, especially that of 
norv 
clipping-time (klip'inn-tim), ii. 
j.MK. (///./(///;.] 1. Tlie time 
of Hhecp-she:miit;. Hence 2. 
The nick uf time..-.. TO come in 
clipping-time,! orl ...... 
ly as ONI- uhu \ i-il- H sheep fit: ' 
sheep-flhenring time, when mitlli an<l 
good i and when hix help 
Is well ..... ie. S:'::ll. 
clip-plate(kiip'pl lt t).. Aptete 
resting upon a carriage-spring, 
and attached to the a\le l,y a clip; the axlc- 
liniid of a carriage-wheel. 
clip-pulley (klip'pul'i)j n. A wheel or pulley 
having on its face a series of grips or clips Unit 
grasp and hold the band or wire rope that passes 
over the pulley. The clips open automatically, 
and release the rope when it leaves the wheel. 
clipst, clipset, clipsist, . [ME., also </</'/" *, 
i-liii/iin, i-lipi>us, by apheresis for cclips, eclipte: 
gee eclipse.} An eclipse. 
That Is cause of this clip* that eloseth now the sonne. 
/'.., /'' ....... H (111, xvili. 185. 
3e wote oure clerkls the clipri* thel call 
Such sodayne sight, 
Both sonue and uione that seaenne si-hall 
l.:ik of ther liglit. IV.r* I'layi, p. 401. 
clip-swage (klip'swaj), n. A swage for com- 
pleting or finishing horseshoe-clips. It is held 
in theliardy-hole of the anvil. 
clipsyt, a. [ME. clipsi; (.clips, eclipse,+ -y 1 .] 
Eclipsed; darkened. 
Now [love] Is faire and now obscure, 
Now bright, now clipsi of manere. 
Rum. u/ the Rote, 1. 5S52. 
clipt (klipt). An occasional spelling, formerly 
the common spelling, of clipped, preterit and 
past participle of clip. 
Clip-yoke (klip'yok), w. In marh., a small plate 
through which pass the ends of a stirrup-shaped 
clip, and which serves as a washer-plate for the 
nuts of the clip. 
Clique (klek), n. [= G. clique, dike, klicke = 
Dan. klike, < F. clique, a party, set, coterie ; of 
uncertain origin.] A party; a set; a coterie; 
specifically, a body or group of persons associ- 
ated informally for some exclusive or intrigu- 
ing purpose. 
Mind, I don't call the London exclusive clique the best 
English society. Caleridye, Table-Talk. 
cliquish (kle'kish), a. [< clique + -fafti.] Re- 
lating to a clique, set, or party; disposed to 
form cliques; actuated by a petty party spirit. 
Also diqueish. 
cliquishness (kle'kish-nes), . The state or 
quality of being cliquish; inclination or ten- 
dency to form cliques. Also cliqueishness. 
The cliqueinhness which breaks up l>oth services (Army 
and Navy] into mutually antagonistic groups. 
The American, VII. 305. 
cliquism (kle'kizm), . [< clique + -ism.'] A 
cliquish spirit or tendency ; cliquishness. Also 
cliqueigm. 
Their system Is a sort of worldly-spiritual cliqueimn. 
George Eliot, Middlemareh, xvil. 
The smallness of the groups [of Liberals], their number, 
and the frequency of election would hinder the fostering 
of those unpleasant elements of r{i/tti*m and jealonsy 
which have wrought so much distrust. 
Wtamin*ttr Rec., CXXVIII. 09. 
cliseometer (klis-e-om'e-ter), n. [= F. disco- 
metre, < Or. K/Jatc, inclination (< Mvetv, incline), 
+ fiirpov, measure.] An instrument for mea- 
suring the angle which the axis of the female 
E;lvis makes with that of the body. 
sh-clash (klish'klash), H. [A varied redu- 
plication of clash."] Silly talk; palaver; gos- 
sip; scandal. [Scotch.] 
dish-clash (klish'klash), adv. With a clashing 
noise. 
The weapons went clith-clash. Mir. for Mag*., p. 481. 
clishmaclash (klish'ma-klash), n. [A variation 
of dinh-flaah; cf. dishmaclarer.] dish-clash; 
clislnnaclaver. [Scotch.] 
clishmaclaver (klish'ma-kla'v^r), n. [< clisli- 
(see dish-clash) + -ma-, a meaningless syllable, 
+ clarer.~\ Idle discourse; silly talk; gossip. 
[Scotch.] 
So, ye may doucely fill a throne, 
Fora* their c/wA-ma-/atvr. Burnt, A Dream. 
Clisiocampa (klis'i-o-kam'pa), n. fNL., < Gr. 
Kf.iaior, a sTii-d, + naurrr/, a caterpillar.] A genus 
