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To strip of the bowels; to clean. "Pilchards . . . are garbaged." Holland.

A liquid, as water or some medicated preparation, used to cleanse the mouth and throat, especially for a medical effect.

A bird referred to in the Bible (Lev. xi. 18and Deut. xiv. 17) as unclean, probably the Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus).

Cleaning; afterbirth. [Obs.] Holland.

wear or eat away by scraping or continuous biting with the teeth; to nibble at. His bones clean picked; his very bones they gnaw. Dryden.

A privy or jakes. [Obs.] Chaucer. Gong farmer, Gong man, a cleaner of privies. [Obs.]

The scarp of a ditch or moat. "To clean the graffages." Miss Mitford.

(Naut.) To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch; -- so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose.

The act of cleaning a ship's bottom. Graving dock. (Naut.) See under Dock.

To clean (a ship's bottom); to grave.

An openwork frame on which vessels are placed for examination, cleaning, and repairs. 3. (Sport)

To tend or care for, or to curry or clean, as a, horse.

grooms horses; especially, a brush rotated by a flexible or jointed revolving shaft, for cleaning horses.

Dirty; unclean. [Colloq.] The grubby game of marbles. Lond. Sat. Rev.

Delirious; senselessly extravagant; as, the man is clean gyte. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

A brush for cleansing and smoothing the hair.

A small hole in a boiler for the insertion of the hand in cleaning, etc. Hand-hole plate, the cover of a hand-hole.

An instrument with long iron teeth set in a board, for cleansing flax or hemp from the tow, hards, or coarse part; a kind of large comb; -- called also hackle and heckle.

To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with a hoe; as, to hoe the earth in a garden; also, to clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe; as, to hoe corn. To hoe one's row, to do one's share of a job. [Colloq.]

delay; promptly; instantly; at once. And Jesus . . . touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. Matt. viii. 3.