Clinopinacoid
(Cli`no*pin"a*coid) n. [Gr. kli`nein to incline + E. pinacoid.] (Crystallog.) The plane in
crystals of the monoclinic system which is parallel to the vertical and the inclined lateral (clinidiagonal)
axes.
Clinorhombic
(Cli`no*rhom"bic) a. [Gr. kli`nein to incline + E. rhombic: cf. F. clinorhombique.] (Crystallog.)
Possessing the qualities of a prism, obliquely inclined to a rhombic base; monoclinic.
Clinquant
(Clin"quant) a. [F.] Glittering; dressed in, or overlaid with, tinsel finery. [Obs.] Shak.
Clinquant
(Clin"quant), n. Tinsel; Dutch gold.
Clio
(Cli"o) n. [L., fr. Gr. the proclaimer, fr. to call, tell of, make famous.] (Class. Myth.) The Muse
who presided over history.
Clione
(Cli*o"ne) n. A genus of naked pteropods. One species abundant in the Arctic Ocean, constitutes
a part of the food of the Greenland whale. It is sometimes incorrectly called Clio.
Clip
(Clip) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clipped (klipt); p. pr. & vb. n. Clipping.] [OE. cluppen, clippen, to
embrace, AS. clyran to embrace, clasp; cf. OHG. kluft tongs, shears, Icel, klypa to pinch, squeeze,
also OE. clippen to cut, shear, Dan. klippe to clip, cut, SW. & Icel. klippa.]
1. To embrace, hence; to encompass.
O . . . that Neptune's arms, who clippeth thee about,
Would bear thee from the knowledge of thyself.
Shak.
2. To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin.
Sentenced to have his ears clipped.
Macaulay.
3. To curtail; to cut short.
All my reports go with the modest truth;
No more nor clipped, but so.
Shak.
In London they clip their words after one manner about the court, another in the city, and a third in the
suburbs.
Swift.
Clip
(Clip) v. i. To move swiftly; — usually with indefinite it.
Straight flies as chek, and clips it down the wind.
Dryden.
Clip
(Clip), n.
1. An embrace. Sir P. Sidney.
2. A cutting; a shearing.
3. The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool.
4. A clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc.
5. An embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree.
Knight.
6. (Far.) A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower
part of the hoof; — called also toe clip and beak. Youatt.
7. A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip. [Colloq. U. S.]
