Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 68
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 (a.) 清潔的；未汙染的；洗過的；愛乾淨的；未使用過的；新鮮的 Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes.
Clean (a.) Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects; as, clean land; clean timber.
Clean (a.) Free from awkwardness; not bungling; adroit; dexterous; as, aclean trick; a clean leap over a fence.
Clean (a.) Free from errors and vulgarisms; as, a clean style.
Clean (a.) Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.
When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of corners of thy field. -- Lev. xxiii. 22.
Clean (a.) Free from moral defilement; sinless; pure.
Create in me a clean heart, O God. -- Ps. li. 10
That I am whole, and clean, and meet for Heaven -- Tennyson.
Clean (a.) (Script.) Free from ceremonial defilement.
Clean (a.) Free from that which is corrupting to the morals; pure in tone; healthy. "Lothair is clean." -- F. Harrison.
Clean (a.) Well-proportioned; shapely; as, clean limbs.
A clean bill of health, A certificate from the proper authority that a ship is free from infection.
Clean breach. See under Breach, n., 4.
To make a clean breast. See under Breast.
Clean (adv.) Without limitation or remainder; quite; perfectly; wholly; entirely. "Domestic broils clean overblown." -- Shak. "Clean contrary." -- Milton.
All the people were passed clean over Jordan. -- Josh. iii. 17.
Clean (adv.) Without miscarriage; not bunglingly; dexterously. [Obs.]
"Pope came off clean with Homer." -- Henley.
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.
{To clean out}, To exhaust; to empty; to get away from (one) all his money. [Colloq.] -- De Quincey.
Clean (adv.) Completely; used as intensifiers; "clean forgot the appointment"; "I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out" [syn: clean, plumb, plum].
Clean (adv.) In conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating; "they played fairly" [syn: fairly, fair, clean] [ant: below the belt, unfairly].
Clean (a.) Free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits; "children with clean shining faces"; "clean white shirts"; "clean dishes"; "a spotlessly clean house"; "cats are clean animals" [ant: dirty, soiled, unclean].
Clean (a.) Free of restrictions or qualifications; "a clean bill of health"; "a clear winner" [syn: clean, clear].
Clean (a.) (Of sound or color) Free from anything that dulls or dims; "efforts to obtain a clean bass in orchestral recordings"; "clear laughter like a waterfall"; "clear reds and blues"; "a light lilting voice like a silver bell" [syn: clean, clear, light, unclouded].
Clean (a.) Free from impurities; "clean water"; "fresh air" [syn: clean, fresh].
Clean (a.) (Of a record) Having no marks of discredit or offense; "a clean voting record"; "a clean driver's license."
Clean (a.) Ritually clean or pure [ant: impure, unclean].
Clean (a.) Not spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination; "a clean fuel"; "cleaner and more efficient engines"; "the tactical bomb is reasonably clean" [syn: clean, uncontaminating] [ant: contaminating, dirty].
Clean (a.) (Of behavior or especially language) Free from objectionable elements; fit for all observers; "good clean fun"; "a clean joke" [syn: clean, unobjectionable] [ant: dirty].
Clean (a.) Free from sepsis or infection; "a clean (or uninfected) wound" [syn: uninfected, clean].
Clean (a.) Morally pure; "led a clean life" [syn: clean, clean-living].
Clean (a.) (Of a manuscript) Having few alterations or corrections; "fair copy"; "a clean manuscript" [syn: clean, fair].
Clean (a.) (Of a surface) Not written or printed on; "blank pages"; "fill in the blank spaces"; "a clean page"; "wide white margins" [syn: blank, clean, white].
Clean (a.) Exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play; "a clean fight"; "a sporting solution of the disagreement"; "sportsmanlike conduct" [syn: clean, sporting, sporty, sportsmanlike].
Clean (a.) Without difficulties or problems; "a clean test flight."
Clean (a.) Thorough and without qualification; "a clean getaway"; "a clean sweep"; "a clean break."
Clean (a.) Not carrying concealed weapons.
Clean (a.) Free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed; "he landed a clean left on his opponent's cheek"; "a clean throw"; "the neat exactness of the surgeon's knife" [syn: clean, neat].
Clean (a.) Free of drugs; "after a long dependency on heroin she has been clean for 4 years."
Clean (n.) A weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then jerked overhead [syn: clean and jerk, clean].
Clean (v.) Make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from; "Clean the stove!"; "The dentist cleaned my teeth" [syn: clean, make clean] [ant: begrime, bemire, colly, dirty, grime, soil].
Clean (v.) Remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits; "Clean the turkey" [syn: clean, pick].
Clean (v.) Clean and tidy up the house; "She housecleans every week" [syn: houseclean, clean house, clean].
Clean (v.) Clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing; "clean up before you see your grandparents"; "clean your fingernails before dinner" [syn: cleanse, clean].
Clean (v.) Be cleanable; "This stove cleans easily."
Clean (v.) Deprive wholly of money in a gambling game, robbery, etc.; "The other players cleaned him completely."
Clean (v.) Remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely; "The boys cleaned the sandwich platters"; "The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm" [syn: clean, strip].
Clean (v.) Remove while making clean; "Clean the spots off the rug."
Clean (v.) Remove unwanted substances from [syn: scavenge, clean].
Clean (v.) Remove shells or husks from; "clean grain before milling it."
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 (a.) Habitually clean; pure; innocent.
Cleanly (a.) Cleansing; fitted to remove moisture; dirt, etc.
Cleanly (a.) 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 (a.) Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.
Clear (a.) Free from ambiguity or indistinctness; lucid; perspicuous; plain; evident; manifest; indubitable.
Clear (a.) Able to perceive clearly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating; as, a clear intellect; a clear head.
Clear (a.) Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful.
Clear (a.) Easily or distinctly heard; audible; canorous.
Clear (a.) Without mixture; entirely pure; as, clear sand.
Clear (a.) Without defect or blemish, such as freckles or knots; as, a clear complexion; clear lumber.
Clear (a.) Free from guilt or stain; unblemished.
Clear (a.) Without diminution; in full; net; as, clear profit.
Clear (a.) Free from impediment or obstruction; unobstructed; as, a clear view; to keep clear of debt.
Clear (a.) 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.) 清除，清掃；出空；空地；空隙；（船隻）結關；出入港許可證；清倉大拍賣 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.
Every ship was subject to seizure for want of stamped clearances. -- Durke
Clearance (n.) Clear or net profit. -- Trollope.
Clearance (n.) (Mach.) 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.
{Clearance space} (Steam engine), The space inclosed in one end of the cylinder, between the valve or valves and the piston, at the beginning of a stroke; waste room. It includes the space caused by the piston's clearance and the space in ports, passageways, etc. Its volume is often expressed as a certain proportion of the volume swept by the piston in a single stroke.
Clearance (n.) The distance by which one thing clears another; the space between them.
Clearance (n.) Vertical space available to allow easy passage under something [syn: {headroom}, {headway}, {clearance}].
Clearance (n.) Permission to proceed; "the plane was given clearance to land."
Clearance (n.) Com. law. The name of a certificate given by the collector of a port, in which is stated the master or commander (naming him) of a ship or vessel named and described, bound for a port, named, and having on board goods described, has entered and cleared his ship or vessel according to law.
Clearance (n.) The Act of Congress of 2d March, 1790, section 93, directs, that the master of any vessel bound to a foreign place, shall deliver to the collector of the [dis ot] from which such vessel shall be about to depart, a manifest of all the cargo on board, and the value thereof, by him subscribed, and shall swear or affirm to the truth thereof; whereupon the collector shall grant a clearance for such vessel and her cargo; but without specifying the particulars thereof in such clearance, unless required by the master so to do. And if any vessel bound to any foreign place shall depart on her voyage to such foreign place, without delivering such a manifest and obtaining a clearance, the master shall forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars for every such offence. Provided, anything to the contrary notwithstanding, the collectors and other officers of the customs shall pay due regard to the inspection laws of the states in which they respectively act, in such manner, that no vessel having on board goods liable to inspection, shall be cleared out, until the master or other person shall have produced such certificate, that all such goods have been duly inspected, as the laws of the respective states do or may require, to be produced to the collector or other officer of the customs. And provided, that receipts for the payment of all legal fees which shall have accrued on any vessel, shall, before any clearance is granted, be produced to the collector or other officer aforesaid.
Clearance (n.) According to Boulay-Paty, Dr. Com. tome 2, p. 19, the clearance is imperiously demanded for the safety of the vessel; for if a vessel should be found without it at sea, it may be legally taken and brought into some port for adjudication, on a charge of piracy. Vide Ship's papers.
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-eyed (a.) 視力良好的；頭腦清晰的；有眼光的；有洞察力的 Having unclouded, bright eyes.
‘A handsome, clear-eyed young man.’
Clear-eyed (a.) Having a shrewd understanding and no illusions.
‘He was clear-eyed about the film industry.’
Shrewd (a.) 精明的；狡猾的；機靈的，敏銳的，聰穎的 Having or showing sharp powers of judgement; astute.
‘She was shrewd enough to guess the motive behind his gesture.’
‘A shrewd career move.’
Shrewd (a.) [Archaic] (Especially of weather) Piercingly cold.
‘A shrewd east wind.’
Shrewd (a.) (Of a blow) Severe.
‘A bayonet's shrewd thrust.’
Shrewd (a.) Mischievous; malicious.
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.) (Geol.) Division into laminae, like slate, with the lamination not necessarily parallel to the plane of deposition; -- usually produced by pressure.
Basal cleavage, Cleavage parallel to the base of a crystal, or to the plane of the lateral axes.
Cell cleavage (Biol.), Multiplication of cells by fission.
See Segmentation.
Cubic cleavage, Cleavage parallel to the faces of a cube.
Diagonal cleavage, Cleavage parallel to ta diagonal plane.
Egg clavage. (Biol.) See Segmentation.
Lateral cleavage, Cleavage parallel to the lateral planes.
Octahedral cleavage, Dodecahedral cleavage, or
Rhombohedral cleavage, Cleavage parallel to the faces of an octahedron, dodecahedron, or rhombohedron.
Prismatic cleavage, Cleavage parallel to a vertical prism.
Cleavage (n.) The state of being split or cleft; "there was a cleavage between the liberal and conservative members."
Cleavage (n.) The breaking of a chemical bond in a molecule resulting in smaller molecules.
Cleavage (n.) (Embryology) The repeated division of a fertilised ovum [syn: cleavage, segmentation].
Cleavage (n.) The line formed by a groove between two parts (especially the separation between a woman's breasts).
Cleavage (n.) The act of cleaving or splitting.