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snipped, ppl. a.|snɪpt|
Also 6 snipte, 7– snipt.
[f. snip v.]
1. Bot. Irregularly notched or serrated; incised.
1578Lyte Dodoens 15 The lesser Clote Burre hath grayish leaues,..iagged or snipte round about the edges. 1601Holland Pliny xxv. vi. II. 220 The leaves..snipped and cut about the edges ordinarily in five parts. 1682Wheler Journ. Greece i. 67 A fair leaf,..snipped about the edges with sharp-pointed teeth, like a great saw. 1796Withering Brit. Pl. (ed. 3) III. 575 Stem-leaves snipt.
2. That has been subjected to snipping; jagged or irregularly cut.
1601Shakes. All's Well iv. v. 2 Your sonne was misled with a snipt taffata fellow there. 1611Cotgr., Passe-poil, a snipped, or iagged welt of Taffata, &c. in a garment. 1796Phil. Trans. LXXXVI. 446 The snipt edges were hard. 1847Alb. Smith Chr. Tadpole lviii. (1879) 491 There were no cheerless grates filled up with snipped silver paper.
3. Of style: Clipped, disjointed.
1806Coleridge Lett. (1895) 506 Persons who write in a hurry are very liable to contract a sort of snipt, convulsive style. |