Clean
Clean (klēn) , adjective
[Old English clene, Anglo-Saxon clane; akin to Old High German chleini pure, neat, graceful, small, German klein small, and perh. to Welsh glan clean, pure, bright; all perh. from a primitive, meaning bright, shining. Compare Glair.]
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.
(Scripture) 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.
Clean , adverb
1.
Without limitation or remainder; quite; perfectly; wholly; entirely.
Domestic broils clean overblown.
All the people were passed clean over Jordan.
2.
Without miscarriage; not bunglingly; dexterously. [Obsolete]
Pope came off clean with Homer.
Clean (klēn) , transitive verb
[See Clean, a., and compare Cleanse.]
To render clean; to free from whatever is foul, offensive, or extraneous; to purify; to cleanse.
Collocations (1)
To clean out , to exhaust; to empty; to get away from (one) all his money. [Colloquial] — De Quincey