Clip \Clip\ (kl[i^]p), v. i. To move swiftly; -- usually with indefinite it.
Straight flies as chek, and clips it down the wind. --Dryden.
Clip \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.]
8. (Mach.) A part, attachment, or appendage, for seizing, clasping, or holding, an object, as a cable, etc. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
9. (Angling) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Clip \Clip\ (kl[i^]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Clipped} (kl[i^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Clipping}.] [OE. cluppen, clippen, to embrace, AS. clyran to embrace, clasp; cf. OHG. kluft tongs, shears, Icel, kl[=y]pa to pinch, squeeze, also OE. clippen to cut, shear, Dan. klippe to clip, cut, SW. & Icel. klippa.] 1. To embrace, hence; to encompass.
O . . . that Neptune's arms, who clippeth thee about, Would bear thee from the knowledge of thyself. --Shak.
2. To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin.
Sentenced to have his ears clipped. --Macaulay.
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.
Elsewhere in the Leningrad TV clip, Mr. Joel offers a summary of his beginning as a rock musician.
And they are dropping fast as productivity is rising at a good clip.
Committee Vice-Chairman Warren Rudman, R-N.H., who speaks at a fast clip himself, told the witness he could understand him just fine.
Next came a rendition of the national anthem _ the same film clip used to launch Turner's Cable News Network in June 1980 _ followed by "Gone With The Wind," the classic film starring Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara and Clark Gable as Rhett Butler.
Most states allow such rifles in hunting but usually limit the size of the ammunition magazine, or clip.
Morgan estimated that the economy will expand at a 2.4% clip in the third quarter and at a 3.3% pace in the fourth.
The family was approached by a group of youths who sliced open Sherwin Watkins' pants and took a money clip containing about $200 and some credit cards.
Brokers were going under at a feverish clip back then, and "they said, 'If duPont Glore Forgan closed it would break the New York Stock Exchange,'" Mr. Perot says.
They sliced open Sherwin Watkins' pants and took a money clip containing about $200 and some credit cards, and they punched his wife in the face.
In the operation, doctors inserted a clip on the artery wall to eliminate the ballooning, Esker said.
Recent laws would also clip the powers of prosecutors, known as procurators, who are also traditionally appointed for their fealty to the party.
Events unfold at a smart clip and the reader grasps the overall shape of the story.
Punters were apparently drawn in by a clip from the production and a commercial shown during the national television broadcast of the awards.
From their early days, they can be fanned out like fingers on a hand and clipped into shape late in May after flowering: if necessary, clip off any long shoots which grow forward throughout the season.
The Commerce Department said the gross national product, the broadest measure of economic health, grew from October to December at the fastest clip in about two years.
Ours clip on in minutes, and off, and on again.' Booming overseas sales in the UK textile industry are not based on price competition.
"The paper clip is 100 percent accurate and fully functional if anyone has big enough paper," said Langanker, 23, of the school's student committee.
It grew at a 1.9 percent clip in the first quarter of 1990.
Chrysler Corp. said it sold 16.2 percent fewer cars during mid-March this year compared with last year, with sales averaging 3,228 a day this year, compared with a 3,850 car-a-day clip last year.
The company was helped by especially strong sales of its minivans, which are selling at a faster clip than a year ago.
With the season now having only a couple of weeks to run, and official forecasts indicating a higher clip than first expected this season and next, price prospects are being adjusted downwards.
Marc Lauricella, a shopping-center developer in New Orleans, has abandoned the Lean Cuisine he used to buy 10 at a clip.
Analysts said that the company's international business continued to grow at a faster clip than the domestic side.
The bond market's recent siesta ended with a jolt yesterday as government reports indicated the economy is growing at a slightly faster clip than many analysts expected.
Even though U.S. rates have risen sharply over the past few months, analysts say the economy continues to expand at a vigorous clip and that inflationary pressures are building.
Oil's decline hit hardest at Houston, whose economy routinely grew at a 6% to 7% annual clip in the boom days; it will grow 2.3% annually in the next five years, the Rice Center predicts.
"The only property we found was a pack of Camel cigarettes, a butane lighter, a pistol with an extra clip of ammunition, and a single house key," Ludington said.
The director Ron Underwood keeps everything moving at a good clip and seems to have appreciated what the writers did. And they've done their job well.
The inflation question has been getting more attention in the past few days as the continuing flow of economic reports tends to show the economy growing at a modest clip.
"The last time I saw him, last week, he asked me for another PT-109 tie clip, and we reminisced again about Jack's 1960 campaign," Kennedy said in a statement.