limpidare

limpidare [LL] 1 to make clear. ~are, dilucidare, clarum facere Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 329. 2 to make bright or clean, scour, polish. oblimat, ~at GlC O 84, 146; Alph. 91 (v. exhebenus); strucio linarii utuntur ad fumigium lane, quod fumigium ~at lanam Ib. 180; to score [v. l. scoure], ~iare [v. l. ~are] CathA. 3 (med.) to purge (also fig.). per illum gradum humilitatis abstergendo presumpcionis putredinem, ~andoque livorem invidie Wycl. Ver. II 48; lethos ‥ succus ei melli mixtus et inunctus vulnera oculorum et argemecta et caligine ~at Alph. 105; livores ~at Ib. 197 (v. hydropiper).