CPage 338
- English Word Clear Definition Without limitation; wholly; quite; entirely; as, to cut a piece clear off.
- English Word Clear Definition To render bright, transparent, or undimmed; to free from clouds.
- English Word Clear Definition To free from impurities; to clarify; to cleanse.
- English Word Clear Definition To free from obscurity or ambiguity; to relive of perplexity; to make perspicuous.
- English Word Clear Definition To render more quick or acute, as the understanding; to make perspicacious.
- English Word Clear Definition 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.
- English Word Clear Definition To free from the imputation of guilt; to justify, vindicate, or acquit; -- often used with from before the thing imputed.
- English Word Clear Definition To leap or pass by, or over, without touching or failure; as, to clear a hedge; to clear a reef.
- English Word Clear Definition To gain without deduction; to net.
- English Word Clear Definition To become free from clouds or fog; to become fair; -- often followed by up, off, or away.
- English Word Clear Definition To disengage one's self from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free.
- English Word Clear Definition To make exchanges of checks and bills, and settle balances, as is done in a clearing house.
- English Word Clear Definition To obtain a clearance; as, the steamer cleared for Liverpool to-day.
- English Word Clear-cut Definition Having a sharp, distinct outline, like that of a cameo.
- English Word Clear-cut Definition Concisely and distinctly expressed.
- English Word Clear-headed Definition Having a clear understanding; quick of perception; intelligent.
- English Word Clear-seeing Definition Having a clear physical or mental vision; having a clear understanding.
- English Word Clear-shining Definition Shining brightly.
- English Word Clear-sighted Definition Seeing with clearness; discerning; as, clear-sighted reason
- English Word Clear-sightedness Definition Acute discernment.