3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Clean \Clean\, a. [Compar. {Cleaner}; superl. {Cleanest}.] [OE.
clene, AS cl?ne; akin to OHG. chleini pure, neat, graceful,
small G. klein small and perh. to W. glan clean, pure,
bright; all perh. from a primitive, meaning bright, shining.
Cf {Glair}.]
1. Free from dirt or filth; as clean clothes.
2. Free from that which is useless or injurious; without
defects; as clean land; clean timber.
3. Free from awkwardness; not bungling; adroit; dexterous;
as aclean trick; a clean leap over a fence.
4. Free from errors and vulgarisms; as a clean style.
5. Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.
When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt
not make clean riddance of corners of thy field.
--Lev. xxiii.
22.
6. Free from moral defilement; sinless; pure.
Create in me a clean heart, O God. --Ps. li 10
That I am whole, and clean, and meet for Heaven
--Tennyson.
7. (Script.) Free from ceremonial defilement.
8. Free from that which is corrupting to the morals; pure in
tone; healthy. ``Lothair is clean.'' --F. Harrison.
9. Well-proportioned; shapely; as clean limbs.
{A clean bill of health}, a certificate from the proper
authority that a ship is free from infection.
{Clean breach}. See under {Breach}, n., 4.
{To make a clean breast}. See under {Breast}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cleaner \Clean"er\, n.
One who or that which cleans.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
cleaner
n 1: a preparation used in cleaning something [syn: {cleansing
agent}, {cleanser}]
2: the operator of dry-cleaning establishment [syn: {dry
cleaner}]
3: someone whose occupation is cleaning
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