Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cleared"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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 a ship for action}, or {To clear for action}
(Naut.), to remove incumbrances from the decks, and
prepare for an engagement.

{To clear the land} (Naut.), to gain such a distance from
shore as to have sea room, and be out of danger from the
land.

{To clear hawse} (Naut.), to disentangle the cables when
twisted.

{To clear up}, to explain; to dispel, as doubts, cares or
fears.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

cleared
adj 1: rid of objects or obstructions such as e.g. trees and brush;
"cleared land"; "cleared streets free of fallen trees
and debris"; "a cleared passage through the
underbrush"; "played poker on the cleared dining room
table" [ant: {uncleared}]
2: freed from any question of guilt; "is absolved from all
blame"; "was now clear of the charge of cowardice"; "his
official honor is vindicated" [syn: {absolved}, {clear}, {exculpated},
{exonerated}, {vindicated}]


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