ppl. a. [UN-1 8. Cf. Da. uklippet, Sw. oklippt.] Not clipped or cut: a. Of hair, wings, etc., or with reference to these.
1388. Wyclif, 2 Sam. xix. 24. Myphibosech … cam doun … with berd vnclippid, in to the comyng of the kyng.
1483. Cath. Angl., 67. (Vn) Clippyd, jntonsus.
1573. Tusser, Husb. (1878), 118. Let lambes go vnclipped, till June be halfe worne.
1586. Ferne, Blaz. Gentrie, 20. Hath your Eagle her wings vnclipped?
1658. Melrose Regality Rec. (S. H. S.), I. 193. He ought therefore to deliver the ewes with their lambs, unclipped.
1878. Browning, Poets Croisic, 101. Grant A fledgeling novice that with wing unclipt She soar her little circuit.
b. Of money.
1691. Locke, Consid. Money, Wks. 1714, II. 45. Clip’d and unclip’d money will always buy an equal quantity of any thing else.
1696. De La Pryme, Diary (Surtees), 98. I have seen unclip’d half crowns that has weigh’d down fifteen shillings clipt.
1823. Byron, Juan, XII. xii. Ingots, bags of dollars, coins (Not of old victors,… But) of fine unclipt gold.
