ppl. a. Also 6 snipte, 7– snipt. [f. SNIP v.]
1. Bot. Irregularly notched or serrated; incised.
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, I. viii. 15. The lesser Clote Burre hath grayish leaues,… iagged or snipte round about the edges.
1601. Holland, Pliny, XXV. vi. II. 220. The leaves … snipped and cut about the edges ordinarily in five parts.
1682. Wheler, Journ. Greece, I. 67. A fair leaf,… snipped about the edges with sharp-pointed teeth, like a great saw.
1796. Withering, Brit. Pl. (ed. 3), III. 575. Stem-leaves snipt.
2. That has been subjected to snipping; jagged or irregularly cut.
1601. Shaks., All’s Well, IV. v. 2. Your sonne was misled with a snipt taffata fellow there.
1611. Cotgr., Passe-poil, a snipped, or iagged welt of Taffata, &c. in a garment.
1796. Pearson, in Phil. Trans., LXXXVI. 446. The snipt edges were hard.
1847. Alb. Smith, Chr. Tadpole, lviii. (1879), 491. There were no cheerless grates filled up with snipped silver paper.
3. Of style: Clipped, disjointed.
1806. Coleridge, Lett. (1895), 506. Persons who write in a hurry are very liable to contract a sort of snipt, convulsive style.
