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Clear-coat

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A mixture of size, alum, and whitening, for sizing walls. To cover over whatever might show through the coat of colour or paper to be put on it, also to make them stick or adhere more firmly.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Claymore or Glaymore
Clean
Clean (To)
Clean and Unclean Animals
Cleaned Out
Clear (verb)
Clear the Court
Clear the Decks
Clear (the adjective)
Clear as Crystal. Clear as Mud
Clear-coat
Clear Day (A)
Clear Grit (The)
Clear out for Guam (To)
Clear Voice (A)
Cleared out
Clearing House
Cleave
Clelia
Clelie
Clement (St.)