clear starcher (klerstar" cher)

clear starches. 1039 cleavage (klē vāj), n. [ cleave2 + -age.] 1. The act of cleaving or splitting, or the state of being cloven. There is little to look upon with pleasure amidst this cleavage of party ties and rending of old a ociations. Fortnightly Rev. , N. S., XL. 3. Clean linen come home from the clear -starcher's. 2 Dickens. A clearstory, clerestory (klēr' stō"ri), n.; pl. clearstories, clerestories (-riz). [The spelling clerestory is archaic, clearstory, which occurs in early mod. E., being also the proper present spelling; (Compare parting .) It is defined as perfect or eminent , imperfect , interrupted, etc., according to the ease with which the fracture takes place, and the smoothne of the resulting surface; also cubic , octahedral, rhombohedral, prismatic , basal , etc., according to the direction of the fracture. 3. In geol ., the property po e ed by certain rocks of being easily split or divided into thin layers. It is chiefly the argillaceous rocks in which cleavage is highly developed, and it seems to be the result of metamorphism combined with pre ure. The cleavage of roofing-slate is the best illustration of this structure. (See clay slate , under clay .) Some rocks split into thin layers as a result of stratification, but this is not what is properly understood by cleavage. Tyndall has shown that wax may have planes of cleavage developed in it by pres- sure; but the only rocks in which cleavage-planes exist in perfection are those which have also undergone some Clearstory.-Apse of Bayeux Cathedral, Normandy. A , clearstory; B , blind-story, or triforium. pies the corresponding position in the upper part of the walls. A meruelous howse was bylded at Gynes, so grete in quantyte, so statly, and all with clere story lyghtys, lyk Arnold's Chronicle (1502), p. li. a lantorne. Hence-2. The raised part of the roof of a railroad-car, which contains the ventilating windows.