[Erroneously curtailed from CLIPS v., the final s being taken as inflexional. So EFris. klip, klips.] = ECLIPSE.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 426. The clere Sune neuer clippit out of course yet, But whan Criste on the crosse for our care deghit.
1480. Robt. Devyll (1798), 21. The cloudes had in clypped [in Hazl., E. P. Poetry, I. 238 y-clypped] the sunne of grace.
1549. Compl. Scot., vi. 56. The soune is maid obscure til vs quhen it clips.
