Part 2008

<blockquote>In London they <b>clip</b> their words after one manner about the court, another in the city, and a third in the suburbs. <i>Swift.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Clip</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To move swiftly; -- usually with indefinite <i>it</i>.</def>

<blockquote>Straight flies as chek, and <b>clips</b> it down the wind. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Clip</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>An embrace.</def>

<i>Sir P. Sidney.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A cutting; a shearing.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>An embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree.</def>

<i>Knight.</i>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Far.)</fld> <def>A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; -- called also <altname>toe clip</altname> and <altname>beak</altname>.</def>

<i>Youatt.</i>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>A blow or stroke with the hand; <as>as, he hit him a <ex>clip</ex></as>.</def> <mark>[Colloq. U. S.]</mark>

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<hw>Clip"per</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who clips; specifically, one who clips off the edges of coin.</def> <-- sic. coin here is in the plural. -->

<blockquote>The value is pared off from it into the <b>clipper's</b> pocket. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A machine for clipping hair, esp. the hair of horses.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>A vessel with a sharp bow, built and rigged for fast sailing.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>Clip"per-built`</wf> <tt>(<?/)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt></wordforms>

<note>&hand; The name was first borne by "Baltimore clippers" famous as privateers in the early wars of the United States.</note>

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<hw>Clip"ping</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of embracing.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The act of cutting off, curtailing, or diminishing; the practice of clipping the edges of coins.</def>

<blockquote><b>clipping</b> by Englishmen is robbing the honest man who receives clipped money. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>That which is clipped off or out of something; a piece separated by clipping; <as>as, newspaper <ex>clippings</ex></as>.</def>

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