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The quality or state of being clear.

The quality or state of being bright; splendor; luster; brilliancy; clearness. A sudden brightness in his face appear. Crabbe.

Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly.

A cock, so called from the clearness or loundness of his voice in crowing.

tinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.

Clearness; splendor. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Clearness; brightness; splendor. Floods, in whose more than crystal clarity, Innumerable virgin graces row. Beaumont.

Seeing with clearness; discerning; as, clear-sighted reason

Lacking clearness, brightness, or luster. "A cloudy diamond." Boyle.

With imperfect light, clearness, or knowledge; obscurely; dimly; blindly; uncertainly. What fame to future times conveys but darkly down. Dryden. so softly dark and darkly pure. Byron.

Want of clearness or perspicuity; obscurity; as, the darkness of a subject, or of a discussion.

Distinctness or clearness, as of an image formed by an optical instrument; precision in detail.

eas; the construction, disposition, and application of words in discourse, with regard to clearness, accuracy, variety, etc.; mode of expression; language; as, the diction of Chaucer's poems. His diction blazes up into a sudden explosion of prophetic grandeur. De Quincey.

Not bright or distinct; wanting luminousness or clearness; obscure in luster or sound; dusky; darkish; obscure; indistinct; overcast; tarnished. The dim magnificence of poetry. Whewell. How is the gold become dim! Lam. iv. 1. I never saw The heavens so dim by day. Shak. Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, T…

Dullness, or want of clearness, of vision or of intellectual perception. Dr. H. More.

Nice discrimination; hence, clearness; precision; as, he stated his arguments with great distinctness.

Lacking brightness or clearness, as a color. [R.] Her stern was painted of a dumb white or dun color. De Foe. Deaf and dumb. See Deaf-mute. -- Dumb ague, or Dumb chill, a form of intermittent fever which has no well-defined "chill." [U.S.] -- Dumb animal, any animal except man; -- usually restricted to a domestic quad…

The quality of being explicit; clearness; directness. Jer. Taylor.

Freedom from foreign matter or alloy; clearness; purity; as, the fineness of liquor. The fineness of the gold, and chargeful fashion. Shak.

Want of perspicuity or clearness; vaguness; ambiguity.