Clear
Definition of Clear
Pronunciation: klēr | a. | 1. | Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded. | | 2. | Free from ambiguity or indistinctness; lucid; perspicuous; plain; evident; manifest; indubitable. | | 3. | Able to perceive clearly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating; as, a clear intellect; a clear head. | | 4. | Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful. | | 5. | Easily or distinctly heard; audible; canorous. | | 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. | | 9. | Without diminution; in full; net; as, clear profit. | | 10. | Free from impediment or obstruction; unobstructed; as, a clear view; to keep clear of debt. | | 11. | Free from embarrassment; detention, etc.| Clear breach | | See under Breach, n., 4. |
| | n. | 1. | (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. | | adv. | 1. | In a clear manner; plainly. | | 2. | Without limitation; wholly; quite; entirely; as, to cut a piece clear off. | | v. t. | 1. | To render bright, transparent, or undimmed; to free from clouds. | | 2. | To free from impurities; to clarify; to cleanse. | | 3. | To free from obscurity or ambiguity; to relive of perplexity; to make perspicuous. | | 4. | To render more quick or acute, as the understanding; to make perspicacious. | | 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. | | 6. | To free from the imputation of guilt; to justify, vindicate, or acquit; - often used with from before the thing imputed. | | 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. | | v. i. | 1. | To become free from clouds or fog; to become fair; - of the weather; - often followed by up, off, or away. | | 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. | | 3. | (Banking) To make exchanges of checks and bills, and settle balances, as is done in a clearing house. | | 4. | To obtain a clearance; as, the steamer cleared for Liverpool to-day. |
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