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In a cleanly manner.

State of being cleanly; neatness of person or dress. Cleanliness from head to heel. Swift.

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.

A personcoetaneous with another; a contemporary. [R.] A . . . coetanean of the late earl of SouthamptoAubrey.

See under Sergeant.

Colossal. [R.]

An agreement or understanding between the chief European powers to take only joint action in the (European) Eastern Question.

Of or belonging to the same country. Howell.

An obsolete name for the cornet-à-piston.

To search after lodes. See Costeaning.

The process by which miners seek to discover metallic lodes. It consist in sinking small pits through the superficial deposits to the solid rock, and then driving from one pit to another across the direction of the vein, in such manner as to cross all the veins between the two pits.

A she-cuckold; a cucquean; a henhussy. [Obs.] What, shall a husband be afraid of his wife's face We are a king, cotquean, and we will reign in our pleasures. B. Jonson.

The condition, character, or conduct of a cotquean. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Faith; belief; creed. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Creative; formative. [R.] Mrs. Browning.

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