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To apply a brush to, according to its particular use; to rub, smooth, clean, paint, etc., with a brush. "A' brushes his hat o' mornings." Shak.

urnt on an altar, as an atonement for sin; a sacrifice. The offerings of the Jews were a clean animal, as an ox, a calf, a goat, or a sheep; or some vegetable substance, as bread, or ears of wheat or barley. Called also burnt sacrifice. [2 Sam. xxiv. 22.]

A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.

regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to denominate; to designate. What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common. Acts x. 15.

nstrument for disentangling and arranging the fibers of cotton, wool, flax, etc.; or for cleaning and smoothing the hair of animals; -- usually consisting of bent wire teeth set closely in rows in a thick piece of leather fastened to a back.

To cause (a vessel) to lean over so that she floats on one side, leaving the other side out of water and accessible for repairs below the water line; to case to be off the keel.

y when overstepping the bounds of decorum; a time of riotous excess. Tennyson. He saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival Byron.

Cleansing the bowels; promoting evacuations by stool; purgative.

According to rites and ceremonies; as, a person ceremonially unclean.

Blue; cerulean. [Obs.] Dyer.

Cerulean. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Tending to cerulean; light bluish.

roperty or rights, to another person; the act of ceding. A cession of the island of New Orleans. Bancroft.

A maidservant who has the care of chambers, making the beds, sweeping, cleaning the rooms, etc.

ulous cow of enormous size, whose food was patient wives, and which was therefore in very lean condition.

gland, the common swallow (Hirundo rustica). -- Chimney sweep, Chimney sweeper, one who cleans chimneys of soot; esp. a boy who climbs the flue, and brushes off the soot.

To free from impurities; to clarify; to cleanse.

Washing; cleansing.

coat (Naut.), a canvas cover laced over furled sails, and the like, to keep them dry and clean.

An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place.