clean

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1. 1.Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects; as, clean land; clean timber.
2. 2.Free from awkwardness; not bungling; adroit; dexterous; as, aclean trick; a clean leap over a fence.
3. 3.Free from errors and vulgarisms; as, a clean style.
4. 4.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. Le 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.
5. 5.(Script.) Free from ceremonial defilement.
6. 6.Free from that which is corrupting to the morals; pure in tone; healthy. "Lothair is clean." F. Harrison.
7. 7.Well-proportioned; shapely; as, clean limbs. A clean bill of health, a certificate from the proper authrity that a ship is free from infection. -- Clean breach. See under Breach, n., 4. -- To make a clean breast. See under Breast.
8. 8.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.
9. 9.2. Without miscarriage; not bunglingly; dexterously. [Obs.] "Pope came off clean with Homer." Henley.
10. 10.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.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects; as, clean land; clean timber called?
• What is free from awkwardness; not bungling; adroit; dexterous; as, aclean trick; a clean leap over a fence called?
• What is free from errors and vulgarisms; as, a clean style called?
• What is free from ceremonial defilement called?
• What is free from that which is corrupting to the morals; pure in tone; healthy. "Lothair is clean." F. Harrison called?
• What is 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 called?
• What is 2. Without miscarriage; not bunglingly; dexterously. [Obs.] "Pope came off clean with Homer." Henley called?
• What is 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 called?