Word Meanings - ILLUMINOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Bright; clear. H. Taylor.

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• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• CLEARER
  A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.
• CLEAR-HEADED
  Having a clear understanding; quick of perception; intelligent. "He was laborious and clear-headed." Macaulay. -- Clear"-head`ed*ness, n.
• CLEAR-SIGHTEDNESS
  Acute discernment.
• CLEAR-SEEING
  Having a clear physical or mental vision; having a clear understanding.
• CLEARCOLE
  A priming of size mixed with whiting or white lead, used in house painting, etc.; also, a size upon which gold leaf is applied in gilding.
• BRIGHTSOME
  Bright; clear; luminous; brilliant. Marlowe.
• CLEAR-CUT
  1. Having a sharp, distinct outline, like that of a cameo. She has . . . a cold and clear-cut face. Tennyson. 2. Concisely and distinctly expressed.
• TAYLOR-WHITE PROCESS
  A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor and Maunsel B. White) for giving toughness to self-hardening steels. The steel is heated almost to fusion, cooled to a temperature of from 700º to 850º C. in molten lead, further cooled in
• CLEARSTARCH
  To stiffen with starch, and then make clear by clapping with the hands; as, to clearstarch muslin.
• CLEARSTARCHER
  One who clearstarches.
• BRIGHTNESS
  1. The quality or state of being bright; splendor; luster; brilliancy; clearness. A sudden brightness in his face appear. Crabbe. 2. Acuteness ; sharpness 9wit. The brightness of his parts . . . distinguished him. Prior. Syn. -- Splendor; luster;
• CLEARNESS
  The quality or state of being clear. Syn. -- Clearness, Perspicuity. Clearness has reference to our ideas, and springs from a distinct conception of the subject under consideration. Perspicuity has reference to the mode of expressing our ideas and
• CLEARWING
  A lepidop terous insect with partially transparent wings, of the family Ægeriadæ, of which the currant and peach-tree borers are examples.
• CLEARAGE
  The act of reforming anything; clearance.
• BRIGHT'S DISEASE
  An affection of the kidneys, usually inflammatory in character, and distinguished by the occurrence of albumin and renal casts in the urine. Several varieties of Bright's disease are now recognized, differing in the part of the kidney involved,
• CLEAR-SHINING
  Shining brightly. Shak.
• CLEAR-SIGHTED
  Seeing with clearness; discerning; as, clear-sighted reason
• CLEARSTORY; CLERESTORY
  The upper story of the nave of a church, containing windows, and rising above the aisle roofs.
• POLYNUCLEAR
  Containing many nuclei.
• EMBRIGHT
  To brighten.
• PERINUCLEAR
  Of or pertaining to a nucleus; situated around a nucleus; as, the perinuclear protoplasm.
• CLEAR
  cleer, OF. cler, F. clair, fr.L. clarus, clear, broght, loud, distinct, renownwd; perh. akin to L. clamare to call, E. claim. Cf. 1. Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded. The stream is so transparent, pure, and
• BINUCLEAR; BINUCLEATE
  Having two nuclei; as, binucleate cells.