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Webster's English Dictionary

clear

a. [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. ()

The stream is so transparent, pure, and clear. (Denham.)

Fair as the moon, clear as the sun. (Canticles vi. 10.)

2. Free from ambiguity or indistinctness; lucid; perspicuous; plain; evident; manifest; indubitable. ()

One truth is clear; whatever is, is right. (Pope.)

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. (Milton.)

4. Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful. ()

With a countenance as clear As friendship wears at feasts. (Shak.)

5. Easily or distinctly heard; audible; canorous. ()

Hark! the numbers soft and clear Gently steal upon the ear. (Pope.)

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. (Pope.)

9. Without diminution; in full; net; as, clear profit. ()

I often wished that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a-year. (Swift)

10. Free from impediment or obstruction; unobstructed; as, a clear view; to keep clear of debt. ()

My companion . . . left the way clear for him. (Addison.)

11. Free from embarrassment; detention, etc. ()

The cruel corporal whispered in my ear, Five pounds, if rightly tipped, would set me clear. (Gay.)

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. ()

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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. ()

adv. 1. In a clear manner; plainly. ()

Now clear I understand What oft . . . thoughts have searched in vain. (Milton.)

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. ()

He sweeps the skies and clears the cloudy north. (Dryden.)

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. (Prior.)

4. To render more quick or acute, as the understanding; to make perspicacious. ()

Our common prints would clear up their understandings. (Addison)

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. (Dr. Johnson.)

A statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter. (Addison.)

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. (Dryden.)

How! wouldst thou clear rebellion? (Addison.)

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. (Macaulay.)

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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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. (Shak.)

Advise him to stay till the weather clears up. (Swift.)

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. ()

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.)

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. ()

To clear out, to go or run away; to depart. [Colloq.] ()