The profit which she cleared on the cargo.
Macaulay.
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.
Clear (klēr), v. i. 1. To become free from clouds or fog; to become fair; -- often followed by up, off, or away.
So foul a sky clears not without a storm.
Shak.
Advise him to stay till the weather clears up.
Swift.
2. To disengage one's self from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free. [Obs.]
He that clears at once will relapse; for finding himself out of straits, he will revert to his customs; but he that cleareth by degrees induceth a habit of frugality.
Bacon.
3. (Banking) To make exchanges of checks and bills, and settle balances, as is done in a clearing house.