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    Clear , a. [Compar. Clearer ; 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.
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      Fair as the moon, clear as the sun.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 , 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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      How! wouldst thou clear rebellion?
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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.
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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 , 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.
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      Advise him to stay till the weather clears up.
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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.
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    4. (Banking) To make exchanges of checks and bills, and settle balances, as is done in a clearing house.
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    5. 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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