CLEAR

Clear ( adv. ) - In a clear manner; plainly.

Clear ( adv. ) - Without limitation; wholly; quite; entirely; as, to cut a piece clear off.

Clear ( n. ) - 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 ( superl. ) - Able to perceive clearly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating; as, a clear intellect; a clear head.

Clear ( superl. ) - Easily or distinctly heard; audible; canorous.

Clear ( superl. ) - Free from ambiguity or indistinctness; lucid; perspicuous; plain; evident; manifest; indubitable.

Clear ( superl. ) - Free from embarrassment; detention, etc.

Clear ( superl. ) - Free from guilt or stain; unblemished.

Clear ( superl. ) - Free from impediment or obstruction; unobstructed; as, a clear view; to keep clear of debt.

Clear ( superl. ) - Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.

Clear ( superl. ) - Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful.

Clear ( superl. ) - Without defect or blemish, such as freckles or knots; as, a clear complexion; clear lumber.

Clear ( superl. ) - Without diminution; in full; net; as, clear profit.

Clear ( superl. ) - Without mixture; entirely pure; as, clear sand.

Clear ( v. i. ) - To become free from clouds or fog; to become fair; -- often followed by up, off, or away.

Clear ( v. i. ) - To disengage one's self from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free.

Clear ( v. i. ) - To make exchanges of checks and bills, and settle balances, as is done in a clearing house.

Clear ( v. i. ) - To obtain a clearance; as, the steamer cleared for Liverpool to-day.

Clear ( v. t. ) - 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 ( v. t. ) - To free from impurities; to clarify; to cleanse.

Clear ( v. t. ) - To free from obscurity or ambiguity; to relive of perplexity; to make perspicuous.

Clear ( v. t. ) - To free from the imputation of guilt; to justify, vindicate, or acquit; -- often used with from before the thing imputed.

Clear ( v. t. ) - To gain without deduction; to net.

Clear ( v. t. ) - To leap or pass by, or over, without touching or failure; as, to clear a hedge; to clear a reef.

Clear ( v. t. ) - To render bright, transparent, or undimmed; to free from clouds.

Clear ( v. t. ) - To render more quick or acute, as the understanding; to make perspicacious.