Syn. — Manifest; pure; unmixed; pellucid; transparent; luminous; obvious; visible; plain; evident; apparent; distinct; perspicuous.
See Manifest.
Clear
(Clear) 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.
Clear
(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.
Clear
(Clear), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cleared ; p. pr. & vb. n. Clearing.]
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
