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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.



verb
Clean  v. t.  (past & past part. cleaned; pres. part. cleaning)  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.)



adverb
Clean  adv.  
1.
Without limitation or remainder; quite; perfectly; wholly; entirely. "Domestic broils clean overblown." "Clean contrary." "All the people were passed clean over Jordan."
2.
Without miscarriage; not bunglingly; dexterously. (Obs.) "Pope came off clean with Homer."






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"Clean" Quotes from Famous Books



... one of the rooms. It was large and delightfully cool and immaculately clean. All around were rows of shelves with screen doors before them, and here were stored canned goods—thousands upon thousands of cans, ...
— Tom Slade with the Colors • Percy K. Fitzhugh

... to sit—all were trifles, rather, I think, amusing than incommodious. The house looked so clean, the distribution of the rooms and closets is so convenient, the prospect everywhere around is so gay and so lovely, and the park of dear Norbury is so close at hand, that we hardly knew how to require anything else for existence than the ...
— The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay Volume 3 • Madame D'Arblay

... cleanse: Then Boil them in fresh Water, and a little sweet Butter; (some boil them a quarter of an hour first) and then taking them out, dry them in a Cloth, pressing out the Water, and whilst hot, add the Butter; and then boiling a full Hour (to exhaust the Malignity) shift them in another clean Water, with Butter, as before till they become sufficiently tender. Then being taken out, pour upon them as much strong Mutton (or other) Broth as will cover them, with six Spoonfuls of White-Wine, twelve Cloves, as many Pepper-Corns, ...
— Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets • John Evelyn

... If the thing goes up to the prefects it may make another house-row. You've had one already. Don't laugh. Listen to me. I ask you—my own Tenth Legion—to take the thing up quietly. I want little Clewer made to look fairly clean ...
— Stalky & Co. • Rudyard Kipling

... idle words Had struck him home. "So quite forgot!—so soon!— And this the square wherein I gave the joust, And that the loggia, where I fed the poor; And yon my palace, where—oh, fair! oh, false!— They robe her for a bridal. Can it be? Clean out of heart, with twice six flying moons, The heart that beat on mine as it would break, That faltered forty oaths. Forced! forced!—not false— Well! I will sit, wife, at thy wedding-feast, And ...
— Indian Poetry • Edwin Arnold


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