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A stall for oxen or other cattle. Where no oxen are, the crib is clean. Prov. xiv. 4.

A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.

o be laid under a dining table to receive falling fragments, and keep the carpet or floor clean. [Written also crumcloth.]

Dressed by currying; cleaned; prepared.

To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather.

That which cleanses or purifies; esp., an apparatus for removing the feculencies of juices and sirups. Knight.

To make ceremonially unclean; to pollute. That which dieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall not eat to defile therewith. Lev. xxii. 8.

state of being defiled, whether physically or morally; pollution; foulness; dirtiness; uncleanness. Defilements of the flesh. Hopkins. The chaste can not rake into such filth without danger of defilement. Addison.

The power or government of demons. A demonocracy of unclean spirits. H. Taylor.

A powder or other substance to be used in cleaning the teeth; tooth powder.

A wash for cleaning the teeth.

One whose business it is to clean, extract, or repair natural teeth, and to make and insert artificial ones; a dental surgeon.

Depurated; cleansed; freed from impurities. Boyle.

One who, or that which, cleanses.

Depurating; tending to depurate or cleanse; depurative.

To depurate; to purify. [Obs.] He shall first be depured and cleansed before that he shall be laid up for pure gold in the treasures of God. Sir T. More.

Serving to purge; tending to cleanse or purify. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

To cleanse; to purge away, as foul or offending matter from the body, or from an ulcer.

A cleansing quality or power. De Foe.

Cleansing; purging. -- n.