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English
Verb
clypt
- simple past and past participle of clip; obsolete spelling of clipped.
- 1546–62, John Heywood, Of rebellion, in The Poverbs and Epigrams of John Heywood (1867), page 201:
- Hast thou any clypt syluer? Hast thou any crekt grote?
- 1595–1662, Henry Lawes, A Dream:
- I laid me down upon a pillow soft,
- And dream'd I clypt and kissed my mistress oft:
- She cried, Fie fie, away, you are too bold.
- I pray'd her be content, though she were cold;
- My veins did burn with flames of hot desire,
- And must not leave till she had quench'd my fire.
- 1886–1918, Joyce Kilmer, Ballade of my Lady's Beauty:
- Squire Adam had two wives, they say,
- Two wives had he, for his delight,
- He kissed and clypt them all the day
- And clypt and kissed them all the night.