To embrace; infold; hug; clasp; grasp; grip.To hold together by pressure, as with a spring, screw, or bandage.n. An embrace.n. A grasp; clasp; grip, as of a machine.n. A device for closing a vent in a machine.n. In farriery, a projecting flange on the upper surface of a horseshoe, which partially embraces the wall of the hoof.n. A metal clasp or confining piece used to connect the parts of a carriage-gear, or to hold the hook of a whipple-tree.n. A clasp or spring-holder for letters, papers, etc.To cut off or sever with a sharp instrument, as shears or scissors; trim or make shorter by cutting: as, to clip the hair; to clip a bird's wings.To diminish by cutting or paring: as, to clip coin; “clipped silver,”To shorten; curtail; cut short; impair by lessening.Hence To pronounce (words) in a shortened form, or with abbreviation.To cut hair.n. The quantity of wool shorn at a single shearing of sheep; a season's shearing.n. A blow or stroke with the hand.n. plural Shears, especially sheep-shears.To move swiftly, as a falcon, a horse, or a yacht: often with an indefinite it.A dialectal form of clepe.n. In angling, a salmon-gaff.n. Same as cartridge-clip.n. Rate of rapid motion, as of horses or yachts: as, a three-mile clip; a fifteen-knot clip.