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unˈclipped, -ˈclipt, ppl. a.
[un-1 8. Cf. Da. uklippet, Sw. oklippt.]
Not clipped or cut: a. Of hair, wings, etc., or with reference to these.
1388Wyclif 2 Sam. xix. 24 Myphibosech..cam doun..with berd vnclippid, in to the comyng of the kyng. 1483Cath. Angl. 67 (Vn) Clippyd, jntonsus. 1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 118 Let lambes go vnclipped, till June be halfe worne. 1586J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie 20 Hath your Eagle her wings vnclipped? 1658Melrose Regality Rec. (S.H.S.) I. 193 He ought therefore to deliver the ewes with their lambs, unclipped. 1878Browning Poets Croisic 101 Grant A fledgeling novice that with wing unclipt She soar her little circuit.
b. Of money.
1691Locke Consid. Money Wks. 1714 II. 45 Clip'd and unclip'd money will always buy an equal quantity of any thing else. 1696De La Pryme Diary (Surtees) 98, I have seen unclip'd half crowns that has weigh'd down fifteen shillings clipt. 1823Byron Juan xii. xii, Ingots, bags of dollars, coins (Not of old victors,..But) of fine unclipt gold.
c. Not fastened with a clip.
1922Joyce Ulysses 23 Buck Mulligan stood on a stone,..his unclipped tie rippling over his shoulder. |