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▪ I. † clips(e, n. Obs.
Forms: 3–4 clipes, 4 clepys, 4–6 clips, clyps(e, 4–7 clipse, 5–6 clyppyce, -us, -es, 5–6 clippis, -ys, 6 clipps.
An aphetic form of eclipse n., formerly common.[So EFris. klips and klip n.] a1300Cursor M. 16814 (Cott.) Þe clipes [Gött. esclepis] in son & moyne. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xviii. 135 Þis clips þat closeth now þe sonne. a1400–50Alexander 2052 Þe son of heuen Lost hase is clarite & hys clepys sufers. 1558Phaër æneid iii. G j, Coribantes beat their brasse the moone from clips to cure. 1612Shelton Quix. ii. iv. I. 80 He would tell us..the Clipse of the Sun and the Moon.
▪ II. † clips(e, v. Obs.
Aphetic form of eclipse v.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. viii. xxix. (Tollem. MS.), Þe mone lackeþ here lyȝte and is clipsid [1495 clypsyd, 1535 eclypsed]. 1581T. Howell Deuises (1879) 197 The sonne..Whose clipsed light, hath turnde our shyne to shade. |