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Free from ambiquity or indistinctness; lucid; perspicuous; plain; evident; manifest; indubitable. One truth is clear; whatever is, is right. Pop

Having a sharp, distinct outline, like that of a cameo. She has . . . a cold and clear-cut face. Tennyson.

f men set apart, by due ordination, to the service of God, in the Christian church, in distinction from the laity; in England, usually restricted to the ministers of the Established Church. Hooker.

A citizen who put himself under the protection of a man of distinction and influence, who was called his patron.

The distinctive dress of any profession, especially of the clergy; hence, the clerical profession. Appeals were made to the priesthood. Would they tamely permit so gross an insult to be offered to their cloth Macaulay. The cloth, the clergy, are constituted for administering and for giving the best possible effect to .…

Confused; indistinct; obscure; dark. Cloudy and confused notions of things. Watts.

An extinct genus of Devonian ganoid fishes, having the broad plates about the head studded with berrylike tubercles.

consanguinity which exists between persons descended from the same mother; -- used in distinction from agnation.

The young of the equine genus or horse kind of animals; -- sometimes distinctively applied to the male, filly being the female. Cf. Foal.

s so arranged as to follow one another in single or double file or in squadrons; -- in distinction from "line", where they are side by side.

y, by which substances unite with each other in definite proportions by weight to form distinct compounds.

nd for each element fixed and exact, by which an element unites with another to form a distinct compound. The combining weights either are identical with, or are multiples or multiples of, the atomic weight. See Atomic weight, under Atomic, a.

Relating to comedy, as distinct from tragedy. I can not for the stage a drama lay, Tragic or comic, but thou writ'st the play. B. Jonson.

Guests or visitors, in distinction from the members of a family; as, to invite company to dine.

The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount; a set-off. Bouvier. Wharton.

Divided into squares of alternate tinctures in a single row; -- said of any bearing; or, in the case of a bearing having curved lines, divided into patches of alternate colors following the curve. If there are two rows it is called counter-compony.

Made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded; as, a composite language. Happiness, like air and water . . . is composite. Landor.

of two or more ingredients in definite proportions by weight, so combined as to form a distinct substance; as, water is a compound of oxygen and hydrogen.

have a conception, idea, or opinion; think; -- with of. Conceive of things clearly and distinctly in their own natures. I. Watts.

ter in one body. To divide all concretes, minerals and others, into the same number of distinct substances. Boyle.