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3. 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.

Clip (kl&ibreve;p), v. i. To move swiftly; -- usually with indefinite it.

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

Clip, n. 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.]

Clip"per (?), n. 1. One who clips; specifically, one who clips off the edges of coin.

The value is pared off from it into the clipper's pocket. Locke.

2. A machine for clipping hair, esp. the hair of horses.

3. (Naut.) A vessel with a sharp bow, built and rigged for fast sailing. -- Clip"per- built` (&?;), a.

&fist; The name was first borne by "Baltimore clippers" famous as privateers in the early wars of the United States.

Clip"ping (?), n. 1. The act of embracing. [Obs.]

2. The act of cutting off, curtailing, or diminishing; the practice of clipping the edges of coins.

clipping by Englishmen is robbing the honest man who receives clipped money. Locke.

3. That which is clipped off or out of something; a piece separated by clipping; as, newspaper clippings.

||Clique (?), n. [F., fr. OF. cliquer to click. See Click, v. i.] A narrow circle of persons associated by common interests or for the accomplishment of a common purpose; - - generally used in a bad sense.

Clique, v. i. To To associate together in a clannish way; to act with others secretly to gain a desired end; to plot; -- used with together.

Cli"quish (?), a. Of or pertaining to a clique; disposed to from cliques; exclusive in spirit.

-- Cli"*quish*ness, n.

Cli"quism (?), n. The tendency to associate in cliques; the spirit of cliques.

||Cli*tel"lus (?), n. [NL., prob. fr. L. clitellae a packsadle.] (Zo÷l.) A thickened glandular portion of the body of the adult earthworm, consisting of several united segments modified for reproductive purposes.

||Cli"to*ris (? or ?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;, fr. &?; to shut up. It is concealed by the labia pudendi.] (Anat.) A small organ at the upper part of the vulva, homologous to the penis in the male.