Found 1 items, similar to To clear hawse.
English → English (gcide) Definition: To clear hawse Clear \Clear\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cleared; p. pr. & vb. n. Clearing.] 1. To render bright, transparent, or undimmed; to free from clouds. [1913 Webster] He sweeps the skies and clears the cloudy north. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 2. To free from impurities; to clarify; to cleanse. [1913 Webster] 3. To free from obscurity or ambiguity; to relive of perplexity; to make perspicuous. [1913 Webster] Many knotty points there are Which all discuss, but few can clear. --Prior. [1913 Webster] 4. To render more quick or acute, as the understanding; to make perspicacious. [1913 Webster] Our common prints would clear up their understandings. --Addison [1913 Webster] 5. To free from impediment or incumbrance, from defilement, or from anything injurious, useless, or offensive; as, to clear land of trees or brushwood, or from stones; to clear the sight or the voice; to clear one's self from debt; -- often used with of, off, away, or out. [1913 Webster] Clear your mind of cant. --Dr. Johnson. [1913 Webster] A statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter. --Addison. [1913 Webster] 6. To free from the imputation of guilt; to justify, vindicate, or acquit; -- often used with from before the thing imputed. [1913 Webster] I . . . am sure he will clear me from partiality. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] How! wouldst thou clear rebellion? --Addison. [1913 Webster] 7. To leap or pass by, or over, without touching or failure; as, to clear a hedge; to clear a reef. [1913 Webster] 8. To gain without deduction; to net. [1913 Webster] The profit which she cleared on the cargo. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] To clear a ship at the customhouse, to exhibit the documents required by law, give bonds, or perform other acts requisite, and procure a permission to sail, and such papers as the law requires. To clear a ship for action, or To clear for action (Naut.), to remove incumbrances from the decks, and prepare for an engagement. To clear the land (Naut.), to gain such a distance from shore as to have sea room, and be out of danger from the land. To clear hawse (Naut.), to disentangle the cables when twisted. To clear up, to explain; to dispel, as doubts, cares or fears. [1913 Webster]