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suffering or anxious; hence, contented; cheerful; as, to lead a comfortable life. My lord leans wondrously to discontent; His comfortable temper has forsook him: He is much out of health. Shak.

Profane; polluted. [Obs.] What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common. Acts x. 15.

Affected with, or inclined to, consumption. The lean, consumptive wench, with coughs decayed. Dryden.

m or fashion; to renew. Your eye in Scotland Would create soldiers. Shak. Create in me a clean heart. Ps. li. 10.

ing. Standing waters are most unwholesome, . . . full of mites,creepers; slimy, muddy, unclean. Burton.

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.

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

d, to be placed under the arm or shoulder, to support the lame or infirm in walking. I'll lean upon one crutch, and fight with the other. Shak. Rhyme is a crutch that lifts the weak alone. H. Smith.

Dressed by currying; cleaned; prepared.

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

To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend. "With declining head." Shak. He . . . would decline even to the lowest of his family. Lady Hutchinson. Disdaining to decline, Slowly he falls, amidst triumphant cries. Byron…

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.