ppl. a. [f. CLIP v.2 + -ED.] Cut as with shears or scissors, cut short, spec. having the hair or wool shorn, etc.
1483. Cath. Angl., 67. Clippyd, Intonsus.
1571. Golding, Calvin on Ps. vi. 4. This clipped maner of speeche.
1680. Lond. Gaz., No. 1549/4. Stollen or strayed … a Black Mare … a clipp’d mark on both Buttocks.
1719. W. Wood, Surv. Trade, 346. If the Mint should Coin clip’d Money.
1788. Ld. Auckland, Corr. (1861), II. 71. Straight alleys and clipped hedges.
1807. Crabbe, Par. Reg., III. 253. A clipt French puppy.
1870. Lowell, Among My Books, Ser. I. (1873), 153. Jeremy Taylor … compels his clipped fancy to the conventual discipline of prose.
