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Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes.

See Clear-cut.

With well-proportioned, unblemished limbs; as, a clean-limbed young fellow. Dickens.

Well-propotioned; symmetrical. [Poetic] Shak.

One who, or that which, cleans.

The act of making clean.

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.

Not clean; foul; dirty; filthy.

Incapable of being cleansed or cleaned.

A machine for cleaning carpets, tapestry, upholstered work, etc., by suction.

The act of washing or cleansing; specifically, the washing of the body, or some part of it, as a religious rite.

To make clean by wiping; to wipe away; to cleanse; hence, to purge. [R.] Quincy.

Serving to cleanse, detergent.

To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.