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Clear   /klɪr/   Listen
adjective
Clear  adj.  (compar. clearer; superl. clearest)  
1.
Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded. "The stream is so transparent, pure, and clear." "Fair as the moon, clear as the sun."
2.
Free from ambiguity or indistinctness; lucid; perspicuous; plain; evident; manifest; indubitable. "One truth is clear; whatever is, is right."
3.
Able to perceive clearly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating; as, a clear intellect; a clear head. "Mother of science! now I feel thy power Within me clear, not only to discern Things in their causes, but to trace the ways Of highest agents."
4.
Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful. "With a countenance as clear As friendship wears at feasts."
5.
Easily or distinctly heard; audible; canorous. "Hark! the numbers soft and clear Gently steal upon the ear."
6.
Without mixture; entirely pure; as, clear sand.
7.
Without defect or blemish, such as freckles or knots; as, a clear complexion; clear lumber.
8.
Free from guilt or stain; unblemished. "Statesman, yet friend to truth! in soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honor clear."
9.
Without diminution; in full; net; as, clear profit. "I often wished that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a-year.".
10.
Free from impediment or obstruction; unobstructed; as, a clear view; to keep clear of debt. "My companion... left the way clear for him."
11.
Free from embarrassment; detention, etc. "The cruel corporal whispered in my ear, Five pounds, if rightly tipped, would set me clear."
Clear breach. See under Breach, n., 4.
Clear days (Law.), days reckoned from one day to another, excluding both the first and last day; as, from Sunday to Sunday there are six clear days.
Clear stuff, boards, planks, etc., free from knots.
Synonyms: Manifest; pure; unmixed; pellucid; transparent; luminous; obvious; visible; plain; evident; apparent; distinct; perspicuous. See Manifest.


verb
Clear  v. t.  (past & past part. cleared; pres. part. clearing)  
1.
To render bright, transparent, or undimmed; to free from clouds. "He sweeps the skies and clears the cloudy north."
2.
To free from impurities; to clarify; to cleanse.
3.
To free from obscurity or ambiguity; to relive of perplexity; to make perspicuous. "Many knotty points there are Which all discuss, but few can clear."
4.
To render more quick or acute, as the understanding; to make perspicacious. "Our common prints would clear up their understandings."
5.
To free from impediment or incumbrance, from defilement, or from anything injurious, useless, or offensive; as, to clear land of trees or brushwood, or from stones; to clear the sight or the voice; to clear one's self from debt; often used with of, off, away, or out. "Clear your mind of cant." "A statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter."
6.
To free from the imputation of guilt; to justify, vindicate, or acquit; often used with from before the thing imputed. "I... am sure he will clear me from partiality." "How! wouldst thou clear rebellion?"
7.
To leap or pass by, or over, without touching or failure; as, to clear a hedge; to clear a reef.
8.
To gain without deduction; to net. "The profit which she cleared on the cargo."
To clear a ship at the customhouse, to exhibit the documents required by law, give bonds, or perform other acts requisite, and procure a permission to sail, and such papers as the law requires.
To clear a ship for action, or To clear for action (Naut.), to remove incumbrances from the decks, and prepare for an engagement.
To clear the land (Naut.), to gain such a distance from shore as to have sea room, and be out of danger from the land.
To clear hawse (Naut.), to disentangle the cables when twisted.
To clear up, to explain; to dispel, as doubts, cares or fears.


Clear  v. i.  
1.
To become free from clouds or fog; to become fair; of the weather; often followed by up, off, or away. "So foul a sky clears not without a storm." "Advise him to stay till the weather clears up."
2.
To become free from turbidity; of solutions or suspensions of liquids; as, the salt has not completely dissolved until the suspension clears up; when refrigerated, the juice may become cloudy, but when warmed to room temperature, it clears up again.
3.
To disengage one's self from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free. (Obs.) "He that clears at once will relapse; for finding himself out of straits, he will revert to his customs; but he that cleareth by degrees induceth a habit of frugality."
4.
(Banking) To make exchanges of checks and bills, and settle balances, as is done in a clearing house.
5.
To obtain a clearance; as, the steamer cleared for Liverpool to-day.
To clear out, to go or run away; to depart. (Colloq.)


adverb
Clear  adv.  
1.
In a clear manner; plainly. "Now clear I understand What oft... thoughts have searched in vain."
2.
Without limitation; wholly; quite; entirely; as, to cut a piece clear off.


noun
Clear  n.  (Carp.) Full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls; as, a room ten feet square in the clear.





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... comes the gay fellows, here they come upon the trot, all eager and anxious to mark the first blow, start the odds, and curry the coal.{1} These are the lads of life—true lovers of the sport—up to the manouvre—clear and quick-sighted, nothing but good ones—aye aye, and here comes Bill Gibbons, furnished ...
— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan
... reproduced the brilliant sparkles, so that the boat appeared to be floating between two glittering zones. They could not be mistaken in the nature of the irradiation thrown from the glowing nucleus, whose clear rays were shattered by all the angles, all the projections of the cavern. This light proceeded from an electric source, and its white color betrayed its origin. It was the sun of this cave, ...
— The Mysterious Island • Jules Verne
... the great Conflict-at-arms naturally enough believed itself right, and that the other side was the first aggressor; but the judgment of Mankind has placed the blame where it properly belonged—on the shoulders of the Rebels. The calm, clear statement of President Lincoln, in his July Message to Congress, touching the assault and its preceding history—together with his conclusions—states the whole matter in such authentic and convincing manner that it may be said to have settled the point ...
— The Great Conspiracy, Complete • John Alexander Logan
... Hamersley Range. On descending to the camp, I started a fragment of rock of a few tons weight, which rushed with fearful velocity towards the deep gorge in which the horses were feeding. After carrying all before it for a quarter of a mile, it made a clear spring over a cliff 200 feet in depth, and plunged into the waters below with a sound like thunder, inducing a belief at the camp that a large portion of cliff had fallen. Fortunately it did not produce an estampede, which I had known to have been caused on another occasion ...
— Journals of Australian Explorations • A C and F T Gregory
... impression from the day's whirl that remained clear and radiant: He had looked at the veritable face of his heroine. He began his letter to Tessie Kearns. "At last I have seen Miss Baxter face to face. There was no doubt about its being her. You would have known her at once. And how beautiful she is! ...
— Merton of the Movies • Harry Leon Wilson


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