Cleans"a*ble (kl&ebreve;nz"&adot;*b'l), a. Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood.
Cleanse (kl&ebreve;nz), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cleansed (kl&ebreve;nzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cleansing.] [AS. cl&aemacr;nsian, fr. cl&aemacr;ne clean. See Clean.] To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean.
If we walk in the light . . . the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin.
1 John i. 7.
Can'st thou not minister to a mind diseased,
And with some sweet oblivious antidote
Cleanse the suffed bosom of that perilous stuff
Which weighs upon the heart?
Shak.
Cleans"er (-&etilde;r), n. [AS. cl&aemacr;nsere.] One who, or that which, cleanses; a detergent. Arbuthnot.
Clean"-tim`bered (?), a. Well- proportioned; symmetrical. [Poetic] Shak.
Clear (klēr), a. [Compar. Clearer (-&etilde;r); superl. Clearest.] [OE. cler, cleer, OF. cler, F. clair, fr.L. clarus, clear, bright, loud, distinct, renowned; perh. akin to L. clamare to call, E. claim. Cf. Chanticleer, Clairvoyant, Claret, Clarify.] 1. Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.
The stream is so transparent, pure, and clear.
Denham.
Fair as the moon, clear as the sun.
Canticles vi. 10.
2. Free from ambiguity or indistinctness; lucid; perspicuous; plain; evident; manifest; indubitable.
One truth is clear; whatever is, is right.
Pope.
3. Able to perceive clearly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating; as, a clear intellect; a clear head.
Mother of science! now I feel thy power
Within me clear, not only to discern
Things in their causes, but to trace the ways
Of highest agents.
Milton.