Part 1987

<blockquote>The cruel corporal whispered in my ear, Five pounds, if rightly tipped, would set me <b>clear</b>. <i>Gay.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Clear breach</col>. <cd>See under <er>Breach</er>, <tt>n.</tt>, 4.</cd> -- <col>Clear days</col> <fld>(Law.)</fld>, <cd>days reckoned from one day to another, excluding both the first and last day; <as>as, from Sunday to Sunday there are six <ex>clear days<ex></as>.</cd> -- <col>Clear stuff</col>, <cd>boards, planks, etc., free from knots.</cd></cs>

<syn>Syn. -- Manifest; pure; unmixed; pellucid; transparent; luminous; obvious; visible; plain; evident; apparent; distinct; perspicuous. See <er>Manifest</er>.</syn>

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<hw>Clear</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Carp.)</fld> <def>Full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls; <as>as, a room ten feet square in the <ex>clear</ex></as>.</def>

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<hw>Clear</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>In a clear manner; plainly.</def>

<blockquote>Now <b>clear</b> I understand What oft . . . thoughts have searched in vain. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Without limitation; wholly; quite; entirely; <as>as, to cut a piece <ex>clear</ex> off</as>.</def>

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<hw>Clear</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Cleared</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Clearing</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To render bright, transparent, or undimmed; to free from clouds.</def>

<blockquote>He sweeps the skies and <b>clears</b> the cloudy north. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To free from impurities; to clarify; to cleanse.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To free from obscurity or ambiguity; to relive of perplexity; to make perspicuous.</def>

<blockquote>Many knotty points there are Which all discuss, but few can <b>clear</b>. <i>Prior.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To render more quick or acute, as the understanding; to make perspicacious.</def>

<blockquote>Our common prints would <b>clear</b> up their understandings. <i>Addison</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To free from impediment or incumbrance, from defilement, or from anything injurious, useless, or offensive; <as>as, to <ex>clear</ex> land of trees or brushwood, or from stones; to <ex>clear</ex> the sight or the voice; to <ex>clear</ex> one's self from debt</as>; -- often used with <i>of</i>, <i>off</i>, <i>away</i>, or <i>out</i>.</def>

<blockquote><b>Clear</b> your mind of cant. <i>Dr. Johnson.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>A statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only <b>clears</b> away the superfluous matter. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>To free from the imputation of guilt; to justify, vindicate, or acquit; -- often used with <i>from</i> before the thing imputed.</def>

<blockquote>I . . . am sure he will <b>clear</b> me from partiality. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>How! wouldst thou <b>clear</b> rebellion? <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>To leap or pass by, or over, without touching or fallure; <as>as, to <ex>clear</ex> a hedge; to <ex>clear</ex> a reef.</as></def>

<p><b>8.</b> <def>To gain without deduction; to net.</def>

<blockquote>The profit which she <b>cleared</b> on the cargo. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To clear a ship at the customhouse</col>, <cd>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.</cd> -- <mcol><col>To clear a ship for action</col>, <it>or</it> <col>To clear for action</col></mcol> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>to remove incumbrances from the decks, and prepare for an engagement.</cd> -- <col>To clear the land</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>to gain such a distance from shore as to have sea room, and be out of danger from the land.</cd> -- <col>To clear hawse</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>to disentangle the cables when twisted.</cd> -- <col>To clear up</col>, <cd>to explain; to dispel, as doubts, cares or fears.</cd></cs>

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