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To embrace, hence; to encompass. |
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To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the
hair; to clip coin. |
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To curtail; to cut short. |
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To move swiftly; -- usually with indefinite it. |
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An embrace. |
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A cutting; a shearing. |
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The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of
wool. |
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A clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc. |
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An embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron
strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree. |
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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. |
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A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip. |