CLEAN, a. In a general sense, free from extraneous matter, or whatever is injurious or offensive hence its signification depends on the nature and qualities of the substances to which it is applied.
1. Free from dirt, or other foul matter as clean water a clean cup a clean floor.
2. Free from weeds or stones as clean land a clean garden or field.
3. Free from knots or branches as clean timber. In America, clear is generally used.
4. Free from moral impurity innocent.
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Job 14 . Acts 18 .
5. Free from ceremonial defilement. Leviticus 10; Numbers 19.
6. Free from guilt sanctified holy. John 13 . Psalms 51 .
7. That might be eaten by the Hebrews. Genesis 7; Genesis 8 .
8. That might be used. Luke 11 .
9. Free from a foul disease cured of leprosy. 2 Kings 5 . Math. 8.
10. Dextrous adroit not bungling free from awkwardness as a clean feat a clean boxer.
11. Free from infection as a clean ship. A clean bill of health is a certificate that a ship is clean, or free from infection.
CLEAN, adv.
1. Quite perfectly wholly entirely fully indicating separation or complete removal of every part. The people passed clean over Jordan. Joshua 3 . Is his mercy clean gone forever? Psalms 77 . This use of clean is not now elegant, and not used except in vulgar language.
2. Without miscarriage dextrously.
Pope came off clean with Homer.
CLEAN, To remove all foreign matter from to separate from any thing whatever is extraneous to it, or whatever is foul, noxious, or offensive, as dirt or filth from the hands, body or clothes, foul matter from a vessel, weeds, shrubs and stones from a meadow to purify. Thus, a house is cleaned by sweeping and washing a field is cleaned by plowing and hoeing.