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Thin; fine; clear and mellow; flutelike; as, fluted notes. Busby.

Soft and clear in tone, like a flute.

Without fog; clear. Kane.

To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression. G. P. Marsh.

road; cloudy or rainy; stormy; not fair; -- said of the weather, sky, etc. So foul a sky clears not without a storm. Shak.

Clear of offense or crime; guiltless; innocent. My hands are guilty, but my heart is free. Dryden.

ortion as its definition is exact, it is natural genus; if its definition can not be made clear, it is more or less an artificial genus.

A polynuclear mass of protoplasm, not divided into separate cells, from which certain ova are developed. Balfour.

To clear of seeds by a machine; as, to gin cotton.

An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest. There interspersed in lawns and opening glades. Pope.

Clear; notorious; open and bold; barefaced; as, a glaring crime. -- Glar"ing*ly, adv.

Brightness; splendor. In the clear azure gleam the flocks are seen. Pope.

To render clear and evident by comments; to illustrate; to explain; to annotate.

d plug, which is driven through a pipe by the pressure of the contents behind the plug to clear away obstructions.

ficiency); to indemmify; to prove or verify (an accusation); to prove to be blameless; to clear; to vindicate. Each word made good and true. Shak. Of no power to make his wishes good. Shak. I . . . would by combat make her good. Shak. Convenient numbers to make good the city. Shak. -- To think good, to approve; to be p…

A fine, filmy substance, like cobwebs, floating in the air, in calm, clear weather, especially in autumn. It is seen in stubble fields and on furze or low bushes, and is formed by small spiders.

Well delineated; clearly and vividly described.

Of the color of grass; clear and vivid green.

To strive after earnestly, as with groans. Nothing but holy, pure, and clear, Or that which groaneth to be so. Herbert.

the Doric order; -- called also campana, and drop. Gutta serena Etym: [L., lit. serene or clear drop] (Med.), amaurosis. -- Guttæ band (Arch.), the listel or band from which the guttæ hang.