Cleading (n.) A jacket or outer covering of wood, etc., to prevent radiation of heat, as from the boiler, cylinder. etc., of a steam engine.
Cleading (n.) The planking or boarding of a shaft, cofferdam, etc.
Clean (superl.) Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes.
Clean (superl.) Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects; as, clean land; clean timber.
Clean (superl.) Free from awkwardness; not bungling; adroit; dexterous; as, aclean trick; a clean leap over a fence.
Clean (superl.) Free from errors and vulgarisms; as, a clean style.
Clean (superl.) Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.
Clean (superl.) Free from moral defilement; sinless; pure.
Clean (superl.) Free from ceremonial defilement.
Clean (superl.) Free from that which is corrupting to the morals; pure in tone; healthy.
Clean (superl.) Well-proportioned; shapely; as, clean limbs.
Clean (adv.) Without limitation or remainder; quite; perfectly; wholly; entirely.
Clean (adv.) Without miscarriage; not bunglingly; dexterously.
Cleaned (imp. & p. p.) of Clean
Cleaning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clean
Clean (a.) To render clean; to free from whatever is foul, offensive, or extraneous; to purify; to cleanse.
Clean-cut (a.) See Clear-cut.
Cleaner (n.) One who, or that which, cleans.
Cleaning (n.) The act of making clean.
Cleaning (n.) The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc.
Cleanlily (adv.) In a cleanly manner.
Clean-limbed (a.) With well-proportioned, unblemished limbs; as, a clean-limbed young fellow.
Cleanliness (n.) State of being cleanly; neatness of person or dress.
Cleanly (superl.) Habitually clean; pure; innocent.
Cleanly (superl.) Cleansing; fitted to remove moisture; dirt, etc.
Cleanly (superl.) Adroit; skillful; dexterous; artful.
Cleanly (adv.) In a clean manner; neatly.
Cleanly (adv.) Innocently; without stain.
Cleanly (adv.) Adroitly; dexterously.
Cleanness (n.) The state or quality of being clean.
Cleanness (n.) Purity of life or language; freedom from licentious courses.
Cleansable (a.) Capable of being cleansed.
Cleansed (imp. & p. p.) of Cleanse
Cleansing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cleanse
Cleanse (v. t.) To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean.
Cleanser (n.) One who, or that which, cleanses; a detergent.
Clean-timbered (a.) Well-proportioned; symmetrical.
Clear (superl.) Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.
Clear (superl.) Free from ambiguity or indistinctness; lucid; perspicuous; plain; evident; manifest; indubitable.
Clear (superl.) Able to perceive clearly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating; as, a clear intellect; a clear head.
Clear (superl.) Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful.
Clear (superl.) Easily or distinctly heard; audible; canorous.
Clear (superl.) Without mixture; entirely pure; as, clear sand.
Clear (superl.) Without defect or blemish, such as freckles or knots; as, a clear complexion; clear lumber.
Clear (superl.) Free from guilt or stain; unblemished.
Clear (superl.) Without diminution; in full; net; as, clear profit.
Clear (superl.) Free from impediment or obstruction; unobstructed; as, a clear view; to keep clear of debt.
Clear (superl.) Free from embarrassment; detention, etc.
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 (adv.) In a clear manner; plainly.
Clear (adv.) Without limitation; wholly; quite; entirely; as, to cut a piece clear off.
Cleared (imp. & p. p.) of Clear
Clearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clear
Clear (v. t.) To render bright, transparent, or undimmed; to free from clouds.
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 render more quick or acute, as the understanding; to make perspicacious.
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 the imputation of guilt; to justify, vindicate, or acquit; -- often used with from before the thing imputed.
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 gain without deduction; to net.
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.
Clearage (n.) The act of removing anything; clearance.
Clearance (n.) The act of clearing; as, to make a thorough clearance.
Clearance (n.) A certificate that a ship or vessel has been cleared at the customhouse; permission to sail.
Clearance (n.) Clear or net profit.
Clearance (n.) The distance by which one object clears another, as the distance between the piston and cylinder head at the end of a stroke in a steam engine, or the least distance between the point of a cogwheel tooth and the bottom of a space between teeth of a wheel with which it engages.
Clear-cut (a.) Having a sharp, distinct outline, like that of a cameo.
Clear-cut (a.) Concisely and distinctly expressed.
Clearedness (n.) The quality of being cleared.
Clearer (n.) One who, or that which, clears.
Clearer (n.) A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished.
Clear-headed (a.) Having a clear understanding; quick of perception; intelligent.
Clearing (n.) The act or process of making clear.
Clearing (n.) A tract of land cleared of wood for cultivation.
Clearing (n.) A method adopted by banks and bankers for making an exchange of checks held by each against the others, and settling differences of accounts.
Clearing (n.) The gross amount of the balances adjusted in the clearing house.
Clearly (adv.) In a clear manner.
Clearness (n.) The quality or state of being clear.
Clear-seeing (a.) Having a clear physical or mental vision; having a clear understanding.
Clear-shining (a.) Shining brightly.
Clear-sighted (a.) Seeing with clearness; discerning; as, clear-sighted reason
Clear-sightedness (n.) Acute discernment.
Clearstarched (imp. & p. p.) of Clearstarch
Clearstraching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clearstarch
Clearstarch (v. t.) To stiffen with starch, and then make clear by clapping with the hands; as, to clearstarch muslin.
Clearstarcher (n.) One who clearstarches.
Clearstory (n.) Alt. of Clerestory
Clerestory (n.) The upper story of the nave of a church, containing windows, and rising above the aisle roofs.
Clearwing (n.) A lepidopterous insect with partially transparent wings, of the family Aegeriadae, of which the currant and peach-tree borers are examples.
Cleat (n.) A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc.
Cleat (n.) A device made of wood or metal, having two arms, around which turns may be taken with a line or rope so as to hold securely and yet be readily released. It is bolted by the middle to a deck or mast, etc., or it may be lashed to a rope.
Cleat (v. t.) To strengthen with a cleat.
Cleavable (a.) Capable of cleaving or being divided.
Cleavage (n.) The act of cleaving or splitting.
Cleavage (n.) The quality possessed by many crystallized substances of splitting readily in one or more definite directions, in which the cohesive attraction is a minimum, affording more or less smooth surfaces; the direction of the dividing plane; a fragment obtained by cleaving, as of a diamond. See Parting.
Cleavage (n.) Division into laminae, like slate, with the lamination not necessarily parallel to the plane of deposition; -- usually produced by pressure.