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   Clean (klēn), a. [Compar. Cleaner (klēnˈẽr); superl. Cleanest.] [OE. clene, AS. clǣne; 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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   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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   Clean (klēn), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cleaned (klēnd); 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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