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.