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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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