Part 1988

<hw>Clear</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To become free from clouds or fog; to become fair; -- often fallowed by <i>up</i>, <i>off</i>, or <i>away</i>.</def>

<blockquote>So foul a sky <b>clears</b> without a strom. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Advise him to stay till the weather <b>clears</b> up. <i>Swift.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To disengage one's self frpm incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free.</def> <mark><mark>[rk>

He that <b>clears</b> at once will relapse; for finding himself out of straits, he will revert to the customs; but he that <b>cleareth</b> by degrees induceth a habit of frugality. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Banking)</fld> <def>To make exchanges of checks and bills, and settle balances, as is done in a clearing house.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To obtain a clearance; <as>as, the steamer <ex>cleared</ex> for Liverpool to-day</as>.</def>

<blockquote>To clear out, to go or run away; to depart. <mark>[Colloq.]</mark></mark>

<h1>Clearage</h1> <Xpage=263>

<hw>Clear"age</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of reforming anything; clearance.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Clearance</h1> <Xpage=263>

<hw>Clear"ance</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of clearing; <as>as, to make a through <ex>clearance</ex></as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A certificate that a ship or vessel has been cleared at the customhouse; permission to sail.</def>

<blockquote>Every ship was subject to seizure for want of stamped <b>clearances</b>. <i>Durke</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Clear or net profit.</def>

<i>Trollope.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Mach.)</fld> <def>The distance by which one object clears another, as the distance between the piston and cylinder head at the end of a stroke in a steam engine, or the least distance between the point of a cogwell tooth and the bottom of a space between teeth of a wheel with which it engages.</def>

<cs><col>Clearance space</col> <fld>(Steam engine)</fld>, <cd>the space inclosed in one end of the cylinder, between the valve or valves and the piston, at the beginning of a stroke; waste room. It includes the space caused by the piston's clearance and the space in ports, passageways, etc. Its volume is often expressed as a certain proportion of the volume swept by the piston in a single stroke.</cd></cs>

<h1>Clear-cut</h1> <Xpage=263>

<hw>Clear"-cut`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Having a sharp, distinct outline, like that of a cameo.</def>

<blockquote>She has . . . a cold and <b>clear-cut</b> face. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Concisely and distinctly expressed.</def>

<h1>Clearedness</h1> <Xpage=263>

<hw>Clear"ed*ness</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality of being cleared.</def>

<blockquote>Imputed by his friends to the <b>clearedness</b>, by his foes to the searedness, of his conscience. <i>T. Fuller.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Clearer</h1> <Xpage=263>

<hw>Clear"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who, or that which, clears.</def>

<blockquote>Gold is a wonderful <b>clearer</b> of the understanding. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>