Clean — Defs

01 a. Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes.

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.” — Lev. xxiii. 22.
6.
Free from moral defilement; sinless; pure.
“Create in me a clean heart, O God.” — Ps. li. 10

“That I am whole, and clean, and meet for Heaven” — Tennyson.
7.
Free from ceremonial defilement.(Script.)
8.
Free from that which is corrupting to the morals; pure in tone; healthy.
9.
Well-proportioned; shapely; as, clean limbs.

Phrases & compounds

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.

02 adv. Without limitation or remainder; quite; perfectly; wholly; entirely.

1.
Without limitation or remainder; quite; perfectly; wholly; entirely.
“All the people were passed clean over Jordan.” — Josh. iii. 17.
2.
Without miscarriage; not bunglingly; dexterously.[Obs.]

03 v. t. To render clean; to free from whatever is foul, offensive, or extraneous; to purify; to cleanse.

imp. & p. p. Cleaned; p. pr. & vb. n. Cleaning

1.
To render clean; to free from whatever is foul, offensive, or extraneous; to purify; to cleanse.

Phrases & compounds

To clean out — to exhaust; to empty; to get away from (one) all his money.