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t riches, then, the toil of fools. Milton. Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. Franklin.

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.

Furnished with a fringe. Fringed lear (Bot.), a leaf edged with soft parallel hairs.

rtion 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 obtain mental possession of; to learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; as to get a lesson; also with out; as, to get out one's Greek lesson. It being harder with him to get one sermon by heart, than to pen twenty. Bp. Fell.

aning words; jargon. He, like a gypsy, oftentimes would go; All kinds of gibberish he had learnt to known. Drayton. Such gibberish as children may be heard amusing themselves with. Hawthorne.

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.

A copious gummy secretion of the humor of the eyelids, in consequence of some disorder; blearedness; lippitude.

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.

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

A framework moving on casters, designed to support children while learning to walk.

iciency); 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 pl…

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.

ree; one who has completed the prescribed course of study in any school or institution of learning.