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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.

Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

Cloth or clippings cabbaged or purloined by one who cuts out garments.

A machine for clipping hair, esp. the hair of horses.

tail, as distinguished from the hair; the stump of a tail; the part of a tail left after clipping or cutting. Grew.

ont of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown. Lawn mower, a machine for clipping the short grass of lawns. -- Lawn tennis, a variety of the game of tennis, played in the open air, sometimes upon a lawn, instead of in a tennis court. See Tennis.

To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop; -- sometimes with off; as, to poll the hair; to poll wool; to poll grass. Who, as he polled off his dart's head, so sure he had decreed That all the counsels of their war he would poll off like it. Chapman.

The clippings of metals made in various mechanical operations.

A clipping from skins; a currier's cuttings.

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

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