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Clean

Clean (clean)
a.(kl***emacr]n)
Clean
[Compar. Cleaner ((?)); superl. Cleanest.] [OE. clene, AS. cl***aemacr]ne; akin to OHG. chleini pure, neat, graceful, small, G. klein small, and perh. to W. gla
  1. Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes.
  2. Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects; as, clean land; clean timber.
  3. Free from awkwardness; not bungling; adroit; dexterous; as, a clean trick; a clean leap over a fence.
  4. Free from errors and vulgarisms; as, a clean style.
  5. Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.

    When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of corners of thy field.
    Lev. xxiii. 22.

  6. Free from moral defilement; sinless; pure.

    Create in me a clean heart, O God.
    Ps. li. 10

    That I am whole, and clean, and meet for Heaven
    Tennyson.

  7. Free from ceremonial defilement.
  8. Free from that which is corrupting to the morals; pure in tone; healthy.
    "Lothair is clean." F. Harrison.
  9. Well-proportioned; shapely; as, clean limbs.

    A clean bill of health, a certificate from the proper authority that a ship is free from infection. -- Clean breach. See under Breach, n., 4. -- To make a clean breast. See under Breast.

Clean

Clean (clean)
adv.
Clean
  1. Without limitation or remainder; quite; perfectly; wholly; entirely.
    "Domestic broils clean overblown." Shak.

    "Clean contrary." Milton.

    All the people were passed clean over Jordan.
    Josh. iii. 17.

  2. Without miscarriage; not bunglingly; dexterously.
    [Obs.] "Pope came off clean with Homer." Henley.

Clean

Clean (clean)
v. t.(kl***emacr]n)
Clean
[imp. *** p. p. Cleaned (kl&emacr]nd); p. pr. *** vb. n. Cleaning.] [See Clean, a., and cf. Cleanse.]
  1. To render clean] to free from whatever is foul, offensive, or extraneous; to purify; to cleanse.

    To clean out, to exhaust; to empty; to get away from (one) all his money. [Colloq.] De Quincey.













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