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   Clear (klēr), a. [Compar. Clearer (-ẽr); superl. Clearest.] [OE. cler, cleer, OF. cler, F. clair, fr.L. clarus, clear, bright, loud, distinct, renowned; perh. akin to L. clamare to call, E. claim. Cf. Chanticleer, Clairvoyant, Claret, Clarify.]
   1. Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.
   
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   The stream is so transparent, pure, and clear. Denham.
   
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   Fair as the moon, clear as the sun. Canticles vi. 10.
   
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   2. Free from ambiguity or indistinctness; lucid; perspicuous; plain; evident; manifest; indubitable.
   
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   One truth is clear; whatever is, is right. Pope.
   
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   3. Able to perceive clearly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating; as, “a clear intellect; a clear head”.
   
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   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. Milton.
   
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   4. Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful.
   
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   With a countenance as clear
   
   As friendship wears at feasts. Shak.
   
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   5. Easily or distinctly heard; audible; canorous.
   
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   Hark! the numbers soft and clear
   
   Gently steal upon the ear. Pope.
   
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   6. Without mixture; entirely pure; as, “clear sand”.
   
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   7. Without defect or blemish, such as freckles or knots; as, “a clear complexion; clear lumber”.
   
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   8. Free from guilt or stain; unblemished.
   
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   Statesman, yet friend to truth! in soul sincere,
   
   In action faithful, and in honor clear. Pope.
   
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   9. Without diminution; in full; net; as, “clear profit”.
   
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   I often wished that I had clear,
   
   For life, six hundred pounds a-year. Swift.
   
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   10. Free from impediment or obstruction; unobstructed; as, “a clear view; to keep clear of debt”.
   
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   My companion . . . left the way clear for him. Addison.
   
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   11. Free from embarrassment; detention, etc.
   
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   The cruel corporal whispered in my ear,
   
   Five pounds, if rightly tipped, would set me clear. Gay.
   
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   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.
   
   Syn. -- Manifest; pure; unmixed; pellucid; transparent; luminous; obvious; visible; plain; evident; apparent; distinct; perspicuous. See Manifest.
   
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   Clear (klēr), 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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   Clear, adv.
   1. In a clear manner; plainly.
   
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   Now clear I understand
   
   What oft . . . thoughts have searched in vain. Milton.
   
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   2. Without limitation; wholly; quite; entirely; as, “to cut a piece clear off”.
   
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   Clear, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cleared (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Clearing.]
   1. To render bright, transparent, or undimmed; to free from clouds.
   
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   He sweeps the skies and clears the cloudy north. Dryden.
   
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   2. To free from impurities; to clarify; to cleanse.
   
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   3. To free from obscurity or ambiguity; to relive of perplexity; to make perspicuous.
   
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   Many knotty points there are
   
   Which all discuss, but few can clear. Prior.
   
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   4. To render more quick or acute, as the understanding; to make perspicacious.
   
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   Our common prints would clear up their understandings. Addison
   
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   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.
   
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   Clear your mind of cant. Dr. Johnson.
   
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   A statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter. Addison.
   
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   6. To free from the imputation of guilt; to justify, vindicate, or acquit; -- often used with from before the thing imputed.
   
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   I . . . am sure he will clear me from partiality. Dryden.
   
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   How! wouldst thou clear rebellion? Addison.
   
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   7. To leap or pass by, or over, without touching or failure; as, “to clear a hedge; to clear a reef”.
   
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   8. To gain without deduction; to net.
   
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   The profit which she cleared on the cargo. Macaulay.
   
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   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.
   
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   Clear (klēr), v. i.
   1. To become free from clouds or fog; to become fair; -- of the weather; -- often followed by up, off, or away.
   
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   So foul a sky clears not without a storm. Shak.
   
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   Advise him to stay till the weather clears up. Swift.
   
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   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”.
   
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   3. To disengage one's self from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free. [Obs.]
   
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   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. Bacon.
   
   
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   3. (Banking) To make exchanges of checks and bills, and settle balances, as is done in a clearing house.
   
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   4. To obtain a clearance; as, “the steamer cleared for Liverpool to-day”.
   
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   To clear out, to go or run away; to depart. [Colloq.]
   
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