clip (3 is the prevailing use)
1.
to cut
Per. V. iii. 74
“clip to form.”
2.
to curtail,
abbreviate
LLL. V. ii. 600
“Judas Maccabœus
clipt is plain Judas,”
Lr. IV. vii. 6
“Nor more nor clipp'd,
but so.”
3.
to embrace, surround
John V. ii. 34
“Neptune's arms, who
clippeth thee about,”
1H4 III. i. 44
“clipp'd in with the
sea,”
2H6 IV. i. 6 (Ff “Cleap(e),”
Oth. III. iii. 465,
Ant. V. ii. 360, Cym. II. iii.
139.
