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The wood louse. [Prov. Eng.]

To embrace, hence; to encompass. O . . . that Neptune's arms, who clippeth thee about, Would bear thee from the knowledge of thyself. Shak.

One who clips; specifically, one who clips off the edges of coin. The value is pared off from it into the clipper's pocket. Locke.

The act of cutting off, curtailing, or diminishing; the practice of clipping the edges of coins. clipping by Englishmen is robbing the honest man who receives clipped money. Locke.

early spring and often used as a pot herb. It is nearer to a buttercup than to a true cowslip. See Illust. of Marsh marigold. American cowslip (Bot.), a pretty flower of the West (Dodecatheon Meadia), belonging to the same order (Primulaceæ) with the English cowslip. -- French cowslip (Bot.), bear's-ear (Primula Auric…

Adorned with cowslips. "Cowslipped lawns." Keats.

etween it and the eye, or between the luminous body and that illuminated by it. A lunar eclipse is caused by the moon passing through the earth's shadow; a solar eclipse, by the moon coming between the sun and the observer. A satellite is eclipsed by entering the shadow of its primary. The obscuration of a planet or st…

Pertaining to the ecliptic; as, the ecliptic way.

The dropping out or suppression from a word of a consonant, with or without a vowel.

r an oblique section of a cone through its opposite sides. The greatest diameter of the ellipse is the major axis, and the least diameter is the minor axis. See Conic section, under Conic, and cf. Focus.

An ellipse. [Obs.]

An instrument for describing ellipses; -- called also trammel.

A solid, all plane sections of which are ellipses or circles. See Conoid, n., 2 (a).

Pertaining to, or shaped like, an ellipsoid; as, ellipsoid or ellipsoidal form.

Having a form intermediate between elliptic and lanceolate.

Of or pertaining to an ellipse; having the form of an ellipse; oblong, with rounded ends. The planets move in elliptic orbits. Cheyne.

In the form of an ellipse.

Deviation of an ellipse or a spheroid from the form of a circle or a sphere; especially, in reference to the figure of the earth, the difference between the equatorial and polar semidiameters, divided by the equatorial; thus, the ellipticity of the earth is

Same as Ellipsograph.

Same as Æolipile.