Part 1984

<p><b>9.</b> <def>Well-proportioned; shapely; <as>as, <ex>clean limbs</ex></as>.</def>

<cs><col>A clean bill of health</col>, <cd>a certificate from the proper authrity that a ship is free from infection.</cd> -- <col>Clean breach</col>. <cd>See under <er>Breach</er>, <tt>n.</tt>, 4.</cd> -- <col>To make a clean breast</col>. <cd>See under <er>Breast</er>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Clean</h1> <Xpage=263>

<hw>Clean</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Without limitation or remainder; quite; perfectly; wholly; entirely.</def> "Domestic broils <i>clean</i> overblown."

<i>Shak.</i>

"<i>Clean</i> contrary."

<i>Milton.</i>

<blockquote>All the people were passed <b>clean</b> over Jordan. <i>Josh. iii. 17.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Without miscarriage; not bunglingly; dexterously.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "Pope came off <i>clean</i> with Homer."

<i>Henley.</i>

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<hw>Clean</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Cleaned</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Cleaning</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[See <er>Clean</er>, <tt>a.</tt>, and cf. <er>Cleanse</er>.]</ety> <def>To render clean; to free from whatever is foul, offensive, or extraneous; to purify; to cleanse.</def>

<cs><col>To clean out</col>, <cd>to exhaust; to empty; to get away from (one) all his money. <mark>[Colloq.]</mark></cd></cs>

<i>De Quincey.</i>

<h1>Clean-cut</h1> <Xpage=263>

<hw>Clean"-cut`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>See <er>Clear-cut</er>.</def>

<h1>Cleaner</h1> <Xpage=263>

<hw>Clean"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who, or that which, cleans.</def>

<h1>Cleaning</h1> <Xpage=263>

<hw>Clean"ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of making clean.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc.</def>

<i>Gardner.</i>

<h1>Cleanlily</h1> <Xpage=263>

<hw>Clean"li*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a cleanly manner.</def>

<h1>Clean-limbed</h1> <Xpage=263>

<hw>Clean"-limbed`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>With well-proportioned, unblemished limbs; <as>as, a <ex>clean-limbed</ex> young fellow</as>.</def>

<i>Dickens.</i>

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