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Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light;
luminous; unclouded. |
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Free from ambiguity or indistinctness; lucid;
perspicuous; plain; evident; manifest; indubitable. |
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Able to perceive clearly; keen; acute; penetrating;
discriminating; as, a clear intellect; a clear head. |
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Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful. |
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Easily or distinctly heard; audible; canorous. |
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Without mixture; entirely pure; as, clear sand. |
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Without defect or blemish, such as freckles or knots;
as, a clear complexion; clear lumber. |
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Free from guilt or stain; unblemished. |
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Without diminution; in full; net; as, clear profit. |
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Free from impediment or obstruction; unobstructed; as,
a clear view; to keep clear of debt. |
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Free from embarrassment; detention, etc. |
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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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In a clear manner; plainly. |
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Without limitation; wholly; quite; entirely; as, to cut a
piece clear off. |
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To render bright, transparent, or undimmed; to free from
clouds. |
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To free from impurities; to clarify; to cleanse. |
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To free from obscurity or ambiguity; to relive of
perplexity; to make perspicuous. |
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To render more quick or acute, as the understanding; to
make perspicacious. |
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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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To free from the imputation of guilt; to justify,
vindicate, or acquit; -- often used with from before the thing imputed. |
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To leap or pass by, or over, without touching or failure;
as, to clear a hedge; to clear a reef. |
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To gain without deduction; to net. |
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To become free from clouds or fog; to become fair; --
often followed by up, off, or away. |
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To disengage one's self from incumbrances, distress, or
entanglements; to become free. |
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To make exchanges of checks and bills, and settle
balances, as is done in a clearing house. |
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To obtain a clearance; as, the steamer cleared for
Liverpool to-day. |
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