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▪ I. beclip, v.1 arch.|bɪˈklɪp|
For forms see clip.
[OE. beclyppan, f. be- 1 + clyppan to clasp, embrace; see clip v.]
†1. trans. To fold in the arms, embrace, clasp. Obs.
c1000Ags. Gosp. Mark ix. 36 Þa nam he anne cnapan..he hine beclypte. c1220Ureison in Cott. Hom. 201 Hire leoue child for to bi-cluppen. 1297R. Glouc. 469 Hii custe hom & bi clupte. 1393Gower Conf. II. 95 Whan I may her hond beclippe. 1474Caxton Chesse 16 Her right arme shal beclyppe me. 1643Horn & Robotham Gate Lang. Unl. xx. §229 Hugging, beclipping, and embracing her foster-child. 1669J. Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 113 A Pear-tree..as much as three Men, from hand to hand, could beclip.
2. To wrap round, enclose, encircle, surround.
c1000Ags. Ps. cxix. 61 Me fyrenfulra fæcne rapas..oft beclyptan. c1330Arth. & Merl. 6109 Of Sarraȝins gret threng..hem biclepten in that place. 1387Trevisa Higden Rolls Ser. I. 59 Occean byclippeþ al þe erþe aboute as a garlond. 1494Fabyan vi. cxlviii. 134 The Wandalis..approchid the cytie..and it enuyroned, or beclypped with a stronge siege. 1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg. F iij 2 b, The muscles and cordes..beclyppeth all the ioynt of the bone called vlna. 1602Warner Alb. Eng. xiii. lxxviii. (1612) 323 Yeat Sea the Earth, the Aier them both, the skie be-cleaps them all. 1855Singleton Virgil II. 121 The flood..beclips, and whirls The booming rocks.
†3. To include, comprise, comprehend, contain.
c1230Hali Meid. 19 Þe hehscipe of þe mede þat tis ilke lut wordes bicluppen abuten. 1393Gower Conf. II. 194 He wolde embrace All that this wide world beclippeth.
†4. To lay hold of, seize upon, grip; to catch, overtake. lit. and fig. Obs.
c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 462 Þe pope will beclippe worldly worchip. 1382― Isa. v. 29 He shal..holden the prei, and biclippen, and ther shal not be that delyuere out. 1491Caxton Vitas Patr. (W. de W. 1495) ii. 180 b/1 He toke his waye..but was beclypped of the nyghte. 1493Festivall (1515) 17 b, A grete blacke toode..had beclypped his faders herte. 1557Tusser Husb. (1878) 224 Get euer before hande..least winter beclip thee.
†b. To curdle (milk). Obs. Cf. catch.
c1400Mandeville 52 Take also a drope of Bawme, and put it in to a Dissche..with Mylk of a Goot; and ȝif it be naturelle Bawme, anon it wole take and beclippe the Mylk.
▪ II. beclip, v.2|bɪˈklɪp|
[f. be- 1 + clip v.]
trans. To clip about, crop.
1794Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xvi. 207 Alaternus, formerly so shorn and beclipped in hedges. |