English

Alternative forms

• clarree, clarrey

Noun

claree

1. (archaic) A drink made of wine, honey and spices.
   • c. 1300, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Merchant's Tale, The Canterbury Tales:

     He dranke hippocras, clarre, and vernage / Of spices hot, to increase his courage.

   • c. 1300, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Knight's Tale, The Canterbury Tales:

     Of a clarree maad of a certeyn wyn, / With nercotikes and opie of Thebes fyn.

   • 1762 November 13, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Letter CCCLXIII, written from Bath, quoted in 1787, Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, volume 4, edition 9, page 182:

     I drink but two thirds of a pint in the whole day, which is less than the soberest of my countrymen drink of claree at every meal.

   • 2003, Peter Ackroyd, The Clerkenwell Tales, page 3:

     At this hour of the morning she drank either ypocras or claree.

Anagrams

• cereal
• cleare
• relace

Spanish

Verb

claree

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of clarear.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of clarear.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of clarear.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of clarear.