Chapter Clavileno to Clementina of C by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

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   To clear the room. To remove from it every thing or person not required.
   To clear the table To remove what has been placed on it.

Clear the Court Remove all strangers, or persons not officially concerned in the suit.

Clear the Decks Prepare for action by removing everything not required.
    Clear used adverbially means wholly, entirely, as, “He is gone clear away,” “Clear out of sight.”

Clear (the adjective)
   A clear head. - A mind that can understand clearly anything which it grasps.
   A clear statement. A straightforward and intelligible statement.
   A clear style [of writing] A lucid method of expressing one's thoughts.

Clear as Crystal. Clear as Mud (See Similes )

Clear-coat A mixture of size, alum, and whitening, for sizing walls. To cover over whatever might show through the coat of colour or paper to be put on it, also to make them stick or adhere more firmly.

Clear Day (A) A bright day, an entire day, as, “The bonds must be left three clear days for examination,” to examine them before the interest is paid.

Clear Grit (The) The real thing, as “champagne is ... if it be but the clear grit” (Anglo-Saxon, gryt, bolted flour).
    A man of grit, or clear grit, is one of decision, from whom all doubt or vacillation has been bolted out, as husks from fine flour.

Clear Out For Guam (To) The ship is bound for no specific place. In the height of the gold fever, ships were chartered to carry passengers to Australia without having return cargoes secured for them. They were, therefore, obliged to leave Melbourne in ballast, and to sail in search of homeward freights. The Custom House regulations required, however, that, on clearing outwards, some port should be named; and it became the habit of captains to name “Guam” (a small island of the Ladrone group) as the hypothetical destination. Hence, “to clear out for Guam” came to mean, clear out for just anywhere- we are bound for whatever coast we may choose to venture upon (See Notes and Queries, April 18th 1885, p. 314)

Clear Voice (A) A voice of pure intonation, neither husky, mouthy, nor throaty

Cleared out I am quite cleared out. I have spent all my money, I have not a farthing left. In French, Je suis Anglé (See French Leave .) Cleared out means, my purse or pocket is cleared out of money.

Clearing House A building in Lombard Street, set apart, since 1775, for interchanging bankers' cheques and bills. Each bank sends to it daily all the bills and cheques not drawn on its own firm; these are sorted and distributed to their respective houses, and the balance is settled by transfer tickets. The origin of this establishment was a post at the corner of Birchin Lane and Lombard Street, where banking clerks met and exchanged memoranda.
   Railway lines have also their “Clearing Houses” for settling the “tickets” of the different lines.
   A “clearing banker” is a banker who has the entrée of the clearing house.

“London has become the clearing-house of the whole world, the place where international debts are exchanged against each other. And something like 5,000 million pounds'-worth of checks and bills pass that clearing yearly.”- A C Perry Elements of Political Economy. p. 363.

Cleave Either to stick to or to part from. A man “shall cleave to his wife” (Matt. xix. 5). As one that “cleaveth wood” (Psalm cxli. 7). The former is the Anglo-Saxon clíf-an, to stick to, and the latter is cleof-an, to split.

Clelia A vain, frivolous female butterfly, with a smattering of everything. In youth she coquetted, and, when youth was passed, tried sundry ways of earning a living, but always without success. It is a character in Crabbe's Borough.

Clelie A character in Madam Scudéri's romance so called. This novel is a type of the buckram formality of Louis XIV. It is full of high-flown compliments, theatrical poses, and cut-and-dry sentiments.