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Clean bill of health   /klin bɪl əv hɛlθ/   Listen
adjective
Clean  adj.  (compar. cleaner; superl. cleanest)  
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."
6.
Free from moral defilement; sinless; pure. "Create in me a clean heart, O God." "That I am whole, and clean, and meet for Heaven"
7.
(Script.) Free from ceremonial defilement.
8.
Free from that which is corrupting to the morals; pure in tone; healthy. "Lothair is clean."
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.






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"Clean bill of health" Quotes from Famous Books



... case; we must do all we can for him. Providentially, here is an emetic I had just mixed for a bilious patient; here, Lexiphanes, drink it off; the other man can wait; let us purge you of this vocal derangement, and get you a clean bill of health. Come along, down with it; you will ...
— Works, V2 • Lucian of Samosata



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