From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Clean \Clean\ (kl[=e]n), a. [Compar. {Cleaner} (kl[=e]n"[~e]r);
superl. {Cleanest}.] [OE. clene, AS. cl[=ae]ne; akin to OHG.
chleini pure, neat, graceful, small, G. klein small, and
perh. to W. glan clean, pure, bright; all perh. from a
primitive, meaning bright, shining. Cf. {Glair}.]
1. Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes.
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2. Free from that which is useless or injurious; without
defects; as, clean land; clean timber.
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3. Free from awkwardness; not bungling; adroit; dexterous;
as, a clean trick; a clean leap over a fence.
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4. Free from errors and vulgarisms; as, a clean style.
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5. Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.
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When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt
not make clean riddance of corners of thy field.
--Lev. xxiii.
22.
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6. Free from moral defilement; sinless; pure.
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Create in me a clean heart, O God. --Ps. li. 10
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That I am whole, and clean, and meet for Heaven
--Tennyson.
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7. (Script.) Free from ceremonial defilement.
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8. Free from that which is corrupting to the morals; pure in
tone; healthy. "Lothair is clean." --F. Harrison.
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9. Well-proportioned; shapely; as, clean limbs.
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{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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Clean \Clean\, adv.
1. Without limitation or remainder; quite; perfectly; wholly;
entirely. "Domestic broils clean overblown." --Shak.
"Clean contrary." --Milton.
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All the people were passed clean over Jordan.
--Josh. iii.
17.
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2. Without miscarriage; not bunglingly; dexterously. [Obs.]
"Pope came off clean with Homer." --Henley.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Clean \Clean\ (kl[=e]n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cleaned}
(kl[=e]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cleaning}.] [See {Clean}, a.,
and cf. {Cleanse}.]
To render clean; to free from whatever is foul, offensive, or
extraneous; to purify; to cleanse.
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{To clean out}, to exhaust; to empty; to get away from (one)
all his money. [Colloq.] --De Quincey.
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