Definition of Overclear

1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overclear

overclaim
overclaimed
overclaiming
overclaims
overclean
overcleaned
overcleaning
overcleans
overclear (current term)
overcleared
overclearing
overclears
overclimb
overclimbed
overclimbing
overclimbs
overclock
overclocked
overclocker
overclockers
overclocking
overclocks
overclose

Literary usage of Overclear

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Little Book of Modern Verse: A Selection from the Work of by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse (1913)
"II For in this world too much is overclear, Immortal Ministrant to many lands, From whose ice-altars flow to fainting sands Rivers that each libation poured ..."

2. Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements by Booker T. Washington, Emmett Jay Scott (1906)
"... how we secured some not overclear water from a hole near-by our home, and how she pitched it out and sent us the whole distance to the spring. ..."

3. The Poems of William Browne of Tavistock by William Browne, Arthur Henry Bullen (1894)
"... and gives not overclear ; His eye deceiv'd mingles his colours wrong, 55 There strikes too little, and here stays too long, Does and undoes, takes off, ..."

4. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, Henry Jackson (1892)
"Though the notion of this word is not overclear, it seems to find a parallel in Vergil's Tris imbris torti radios, ..."

5. Insurance and Crime: A Consideration of the Effects Upon Society of the by Alexander Colin Campbell (1902)
"The distinction between business and gambling is not overclear even in our own day, but we do recognise a difference between the extreme of one and the ..."

6. Chivalry by James Branch Cabell (1909)
"... was handsomer than you, since your complexion is not overclear, praise God!" Woman against woman they were. " He has told me of his intercourse with you ..."

7. The Congregational Review (1869)
"I was glad to stand on this hill and see where, in a benighted corner of Israel, the ancient hero, a host in himself, with not overclear conceptions of the ..."

8. Debenham's Vow by Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards (1870)
"And now it is night ; clear, but not overclear, although the stars are shining. Objects, however, are discernible at some distance, and ships are sighted ..."

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