[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

clean \clean\ kl=en, a. compar. cleaner kl=en"~er;
   superl. cleanest. oe. clene, as. cl=aene; 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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see also:
cleaner cleanest glair a clean bill of health clean breach breach 
to make a clean breast breast 

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