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A clipped coin; also, a counterfeit. [Obs.] Camden.

of the equinoxes (Astron.), the slow backward motion of the equinoctial points along the ecliptic, at the rate of 50.2" annually, caused by the action of the sun, moon, and planets, upon the protuberant matter about the earth's equator, in connection with its diurnal rotation; -- so called because either equinox, owing…

rom the Mediterranean region, and have been much cultivated for hedges and for fancifully clipped shrubberies.

dinary, or out of the usual course of nature, from which omens are drawn; a portent; as, eclipses and meteors were anciently deemed prodigies. So many terrors, voices, prodigies, May warn thee, as a sure foregoing sign. Milton.

b of the sun which are seen to extend beyond the edge of the moon at the time of a solar eclipse. They may be discovered with the spectroscope on any clear day. Called also solar prominences. See Illust. in Append.

A sail, or any piece of canvas. [Nautical Slang] Our ship was a clipper with every rag set. Lowell. Rag bolt, an iron pin with barbs on its shank to retain it in place. -- Rag carpet, a carpet of which the weft consists of narrow of cloth sewed together, end to end. -- Rag dust, fine particles of ground-up rags, used…

l stipend are mentioned with becoming reprobation. Jeffrey. Set a brand of reprobation on clipped poetry and false coin. Dryden.

The clippings of metals made in various mechanical operations.

A clipping from skins; a currier's cuttings.

To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.

The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.

The twelfth part of the ecliptic or zodiac.

To cut off the nip or neb of, or to cut off at once with shears or scissors; to clip off suddenly; to nip; hence, to break off; to snatch away. Curbed and snipped in my younger years by fear of my parents from those vicious excrescences to which that age was subject. Fuller. The captain seldom ordered anything out of t…

To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of; to nop.

Measured by the progress or revolution of the sun in the ecliptic; as, the solar year.

The point in the ecliptic at which the sun is farthest from the equator, north or south, namely, the first point of the sign Cancer and the first point of the sign Capricorn, the former being the summer solstice, latter the winter solstice, in northern latitudes; - - so called because the sun then apparently stands sti…

ch the various astronomical circles, as of right ascension and declination, the equator, ecliptic, etc., are conceived to be drawn; an ideal geometrical sphere, with the astronomical and geographical circles in their proper positions on it.

To cut or clip with a knife; to whittle. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Chaucer.

Capable of being clipped.

The act of clipping the hair, or of shaving the crown of the head; also, the state of being shorn.