The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clear \Clear\ (kl[=e]r), a. [Compar. Clearer (-[~e]r); superl. Clearest.] [OE. cler, cleer, OF. cler, F. clair, fr.L. clarus, clear, bright, loud, distinct, renowned; perh. akin to L. clamare to call, E. claim. Cf. Chanticleer, Clairvoyant, Claret, Clarify.]
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Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.
The stream is so transparent, pure, and clear.
--Denham.Fair as the moon, clear as the sun.
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Free from ambiguity or indistinctness; lucid; perspicuous; plain; evident; manifest; indubitable.
One truth is clear; whatever is, is right.
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Able to perceive clearly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating; as, a clear intellect; a clear head.
Mother of science! now I feel thy power Within me clear, not only to discern Things in their causes, but to trace the ways Of highest agents.
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Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful.
With a countenance as clear As friendship wears at feasts.
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Easily or distinctly heard; audible; canorous.
Hark! the numbers soft and clear Gently steal upon the ear.
--Pope. Without mixture; entirely pure; as, clear sand.
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.
Statesman, yet friend to truth! in soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honor clear.
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Without diminution; in full; net; as, clear profit.
I often wished that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a-year.
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Free from impediment or obstruction; unobstructed; as, a clear view; to keep clear of debt.
My companion . . . left the way clear for him.
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Free from embarrassment; detention, etc.
The cruel corporal whispered in my ear, Five pounds, if rightly tipped, would set me clear.
--Gay.Clear breach. See under Breach, n., 4.
Clear days (Law.), days reckoned from one day to another, excluding both the first and last day; as, from Sunday to Sunday there are six clear days.
Clear stuff, boards, planks, etc., free from knots.
Syn: Manifest; pure; unmixed; pellucid; transparent; luminous; obvious; visible; plain; evident; apparent; distinct; perspicuous. See Manifest.
Usage examples of "clear days".
It is true that on clear days, when the great trans-continental expresses, long lines of swaying Pullmans, swept through Fort Romper, passengers were overcome at the sight, and the cult that knows the brown-reds and the subdivisions of the dark greens of the East expressed shame, pity, horror, in a laugh.
On clear days, which were not frequent, he could see out the open arches of the top room to the distant abrupt wall of the Alps, a wall he had learned to call the Berner Oberland.
This, of course, was only of clear days like those good-fortune was sending the tribune.
It was as if the world ended at a chain of mountains we could see on clear days.
On the clear days, it often seemed as if they were the only living things in all the world.
The blue was about the same blue that is in the sky on clear days, but this color was not in the distance.