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Habitually clean; pure; innocent. "Cleanly joys." Glanvill. Some plain but cleanly country maid. Dryden. Displays her cleanly platter on the board. Goldsmith.

The state or quality of being clean.

Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood.

To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean. If we walk in the light . . . the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin. 1 John i. 7. Can'st thou not minister to a mind diseased, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the suffed bosom of that perilous stuff Whi…

One who, or that which, cleanses; a detergent. Arbuthnot.

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Creoles. -- n.

One who writes epistles; a correspondent. Mary Cowden Clarke.

Of or pertaining to Galileo; as, the Galilean telescope. See Telescope.

agmentary parcels, as the grain left by a reaper, or grapes left after the gathering. To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps. Shak.

One who gathers after reapers.

The act of gathering after reapers; that which is collected by gleaning. Glenings of natural knowledge. Cook.

quiring the strength of Hercules; hence, very great, difficult, or dangerous; as, an Herculean task.

Pertaining to a mausoleum; monumental.

A beautiful evergreen shrub of the Dogbane family, having clusters of fragrant red or white flowers. It is native of the East Indies, but the red variety has become common in the south of Europe. Called also rosebay, rose laurel, and South-sea rose.

One of several alkaloids found in the leaves of the oleander.

A cloth made of worsted and cotton, -- used for wearing apparel.

Not clean; foul; dirty; filthy.

Incapable of being cleansed or cleaned.

To lean or incline upon anything. [Obs.] Spenser.

A machine for cleaning carpets, tapestry, upholstered work, etc., by suction.