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Clear
CLEAR, a.
1. Open; free from obstruction; as a clear plat of ground; the way is clear.
2. Free from clouds, or fog; serene; as a clear day.
3. Free from foreign matter; unmixed; pure; as clear water; clear sand; clear air; clear glass.
4. Free from any thing that creates doubt or uncertainty; apparent; evident; manifest; not obscure; conspicuous; that is, open to the mind; as, the reason is clear.
5. Unclouded; luminous; not obscured; as a clear sun; a clear shining after a rain. 2 Sam 23.
6. Unobstructed; unobscured; as a clear view.
7. Perspicacious; sharp; as a clear sight.
8. Not clouded with care, or ruffled by passion; cheerful; serene; as a clear aspect.
9. Evident; undeniable; indisputable; as the victory was clear.
10. Quick to understand; prompt; acute.
Mother of science, now I feel thy power within me clear.
11. Free from guilt or blame; innocent; unspotted; irreproachable. 2 Cor 7.
In action faithful, and in honor clear.
12. Free from bias; unprepossessed; not preoccupied; impartial; as a clear judgment.
13. Free from debt, or obligation; not liable to prosecution; as, to be clear of debt or responsibility.
14. Free from deductions, or charges; as clear gain or profit.
15. Not entangled; unembarrassed; free; as, the cable is clear. A ship is clear, when she is so remote from shore or other object, as to be out of danger of striking, or to have sea room sufficient.
16. Open; distinct; not jarring, or harsh; as a clear sound; a clear voice.
17. Liberated; freed; acquitted of charges; as, a man has been tried and got clear.
18. Free from spots or any thing that disfigures; as a clear skin.
Clear is followed by from or by of.
Thou shalt be clear from this my oath. Gen 24.
The air is clear of damp exhalations.
CLEAR, adv.
1. Plainly; not obscurely; manifestly.
2. Clean; quite; entirely; wholly; indicating entire separation; as, to cut a piece clear off; to go clear away; but in this sense its use is not elegant.
Clear or in the clear, among joiners and carpenters, denotes the space within walls, or length and breadth clear or exclusive of the thickness of the wall.
CLEAR, v.t.
1. To make clear; to fine; to remove any thing foreign; to separate from any foul matter; to purify; to clarify; as, to clear liquors.
2. To free from obstructions; as, to clear the road.
3. To free from any thing noxious or injurious; as, to clear the ocean of pirates; to clear the land of enemies.
4. To remove any incumbrance, or embarrassment; often followed by off or away; as, to clear off debts; to clear away rubbish.
5. To free; to liberate, or disengage; to exonerate; as, to clear a man from debt, obligation, or duty.
6. To cleanse; as, to clear the hands from filth; to clear the bowels.
7. To remove any thing that obscures, as clouds or fog; to make bright; as, to clear the sky; sometimes followed by up.
8. To free from obscurity, perplexity or ambiguity; as, to clear a question or theory; to clear up a case or point.
9. To urge from the imputation of guilt; to justify or vindicate.
How shall we clear ourselves? Gen 44.
That will by no means clear the guilty. Exo 34.
10. In a legal sense, to acquit on trial, by verdict; as, the prisoner has been tried and cleared.
11. To make gain or profit, beyond all expenses and charges; as, to clear ten percent by a sale of goods, or by a voyage.
12. To remove wood from land. To cut down trees, remove or burn them, and prepare land for tillage or pasture; as, to clear land for wheat.
CLEAR, v.i.
1. To become free from clouds or fog; to become fair; often followed by up, off, or away; as, the sky clears; the weather clears up; it clears away; it clears off.
2. To be disengaged from incumbrances, distress or entanglements; to become free or disengaged.
He that clears at once will relapse.
clear appears in definitions for these words:
Abduction Absurd Adarce Adatis Air Antimony Apodictic Appear Assart Avoid Azure Bdellium Bear Belief Beryl-crystal Bister Blote Bond Break Bright Brighten Bring Broad Call Canvas Catastrophe Chanticleer Cheap Chian Civet Claret Clarification Clarified Clarify Clarifying Claritude Clean Clear Clear-sighted Clear-starch Clear-starcher Clear-starching Clearance Clearer Clearing Clearly Clearness Cloudless Coast Composition Conceive Confusedly Confusedness Conspicuous Conspicuously Content Copaiba Crepuscular Crepusculous Crystal Crystaline Custom-house Dark Darken Darkening Darkly Darkness Decided Decidedly Declaratory Declare Defecate Delicate Demonstrative Demonstratively Deobstruct Deobstructed Deobstruent Deoppilate Dephlegmate Deraign Diamond Diaphanous Dilucid Dilucidate Dim Dimly Dimness Disblame Disburden Discharge Disculpated Discuss Discussion Disembarrass Disembay Disembitter Disembroiled Disengage Dissolve Distinct Distinctly Distinctness Doubtful Drain Drive Dry Dubious Dull Dullness Duster Eclaircise Eclaircissement Elocution Elucidate Elucidated Elucidating Encounter Enlighten Enlightened Enlightener Enodation Enubilate Enubilous Enucleate Enucleated Enucleating Enucleation Enunciation Estrange Evacuated Evacuation Evidence Evidenced Evidencing Evident Evidential Evidently Evince Excarnate Exculpate Exculpated Exculpating Exculpatory Exempt Exonerate Expedite Explain Explainable Explained Explaining Explanation Explicate Explicit Explicitness Expound Expounding Express Expressively Eye-brightening Fair Fairness Fine Fineness Flare Foul Free Freed Freeing Full Gaoldelivery Get Gin Glair Glare Glaring Glaringly Gleam Gleaned Gloss Gossamer Grayling Hawse Headed Hesitation Hoe Hoed Hoeing Illustrate Illustrated Illustration Illustrative Illustrator Imaginable Imperspicuity Imperspicuous Implicit Import Impression Improvement Impudence Incontestable Incontrovertible Indisputableness Indistinct Indistinctly Inevident Inlaw Insinuate Insolvable Intellect Intelligibly Intuitive Judgment Justify Kedge Know Knowing Knowledge Lictor Light Limpid Limpidness Liquid Liquidate Loche Lucid Lucidness Luculent Luminous Luminously Luminousness Lustrate Lustration Make Manifest Manifestation Manifested Manifesting Manifestly Manifestness Manifesto Mantle Menilite Mercy Metonymy Mirror Mole Morning Mown Muffle Mysterious N Neat Net New Obscure Obscurely Obviate Old Open Openness Order Orthodoxy Paraphrase Paraphrast Parphrastictical Pastil Pearl Pearly Pellucid Pellucidity Perspicuity Perspicuous Perspicuously Perspicuousness Picturesk Pioneer Plaice Plainly Plainness Poise Polish Pregnant Pregnantly Prodigious Prognosticate Prune Pruned Pruning Pure Pureness Purge Purify Purifying Pyrophane Quab Quit Quite Rake Ready Reap Reason Reduce Reduction Refine Refinement Relucent Remainder Resolve Rid Riddance Ridding Rust Scale Scaled Scotfree Scouring Scrape Scraped Scripture Scum Scumming Seeming Self-evident Semi-pellucid Semi-perspicuous Sensible Serenade Serene Serenity Settle Sharp Sheer Shine Shining Shiny Shrub Shun Shunning Shut Sightfulness Sin Single Skirr Sky Solve Sonorous Sonorousness Soon Spark Sprawl Stout Succinct Sunshiny Swarm Take Technical Thick Throw Thwaite Tide-mill Tragacanth Tralucent Translucent Translucid Transparency Transparently Trench Turbid Unambiguous Unambiguously Unambiguousness Uncloud Unclouded Uncloudedness Unclouding Uncloudy Undull Unequivocal Unprofitably Unravel Unresolved Untie Untroubled Unweeded Varnish Vellum View Visual Voice Void Voracious Warm Weather Whig White-wine Wipe Wiped Wiping Work Wormed Worming
Abduction Absurd Adarce Adatis Air Antimony Apodictic Appear Assart Avoid Azure Bdellium Bear Belief Beryl-crystal Bister Blote Bond Break Bright Brighten Bring Broad Call Canvas Catastrophe Chanticleer Cheap Chian Civet Claret Clarification Clarified Clarify Clarifying Claritude Clean Clear Clear-sighted Clear-starch Clear-starcher Clear-starching Clearance Clearer Clearing Clearly Clearness Cloudless Coast Composition Conceive Confusedly Confusedness Conspicuous Conspicuously Content Copaiba Crepuscular Crepusculous Crystal Crystaline Custom-house Dark Darken Darkening Darkly Darkness Decided Decidedly Declaratory Declare Defecate Delicate Demonstrative Demonstratively Deobstruct Deobstructed Deobstruent Deoppilate Dephlegmate Deraign Diamond Diaphanous Dilucid Dilucidate Dim Dimly Dimness Disblame Disburden Discharge Disculpated Discuss Discussion Disembarrass Disembay Disembitter Disembroiled Disengage Dissolve Distinct Distinctly Distinctness Doubtful Drain Drive Dry Dubious Dull Dullness Duster Eclaircise Eclaircissement Elocution Elucidate Elucidated Elucidating Encounter Enlighten Enlightened Enlightener Enodation Enubilate Enubilous Enucleate Enucleated Enucleating Enucleation Enunciation Estrange Evacuated Evacuation Evidence Evidenced Evidencing Evident Evidential Evidently Evince Excarnate Exculpate Exculpated Exculpating Exculpatory Exempt Exonerate Expedite Explain Explainable Explained Explaining Explanation Explicate Explicit Explicitness Expound Expounding Express Expressively Eye-brightening Fair Fairness Fine Fineness Flare Foul Free Freed Freeing Full Gaoldelivery Get Gin Glair Glare Glaring Glaringly Gleam Gleaned Gloss Gossamer Grayling Hawse Headed Hesitation Hoe Hoed Hoeing Illustrate Illustrated Illustration Illustrative Illustrator Imaginable Imperspicuity Imperspicuous Implicit Import Impression Improvement Impudence Incontestable Incontrovertible Indisputableness Indistinct Indistinctly Inevident Inlaw Insinuate Insolvable Intellect Intelligibly Intuitive Judgment Justify Kedge Know Knowing Knowledge Lictor Light Limpid Limpidness Liquid Liquidate Loche Lucid Lucidness Luculent Luminous Luminously Luminousness Lustrate Lustration Make Manifest Manifestation Manifested Manifesting Manifestly Manifestness Manifesto Mantle Menilite Mercy Metonymy Mirror Mole Morning Mown Muffle Mysterious N Neat Net New Obscure Obscurely Obviate Old Open Openness Order Orthodoxy Paraphrase Paraphrast Parphrastictical Pastil Pearl Pearly Pellucid Pellucidity Perspicuity Perspicuous Perspicuously Perspicuousness Picturesk Pioneer Plaice Plainly Plainness Poise Polish Pregnant Pregnantly Prodigious Prognosticate Prune Pruned Pruning Pure Pureness Purge Purify Purifying Pyrophane Quab Quit Quite Rake Ready Reap Reason Reduce Reduction Refine Refinement Relucent Remainder Resolve Rid Riddance Ridding Rust Scale Scaled Scotfree Scouring Scrape Scraped Scripture Scum Scumming Seeming Self-evident Semi-pellucid Semi-perspicuous Sensible Serenade Serene Serenity Settle Sharp Sheer Shine Shining Shiny Shrub Shun Shunning Shut Sightfulness Sin Single Skirr Sky Solve Sonorous Sonorousness Soon Spark Sprawl Stout Succinct Sunshiny Swarm Take Technical Thick Throw Thwaite Tide-mill Tragacanth Tralucent Translucent Translucid Transparency Transparently Trench Turbid Unambiguous Unambiguously Unambiguousness Uncloud Unclouded Uncloudedness Unclouding Uncloudy Undull Unequivocal Unprofitably Unravel Unresolved Untie Untroubled Unweeded Varnish Vellum View Visual Voice Void Voracious Warm Weather Whig White-wine Wipe Wiped Wiping Work Wormed Worming
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