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.
Clean, adv. 1. Without limitation or remainder; quite; perfectly; wholly; entirely. "Domestic broils clean overblown." Shak.
"Clean contrary." Milton.
All the people were passed clean over Jordan.
Josh. iii. 17.
2. Without miscarriage; not bunglingly; dexterously. [Obs.] "Pope came off clean with Homer." Henley.
Clean (klēn), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cleaned (klēnd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cleaning.] [See Clean, a., and cf. Cleanse.] To render clean; to free from whatever is foul, offensive, or extraneous; to purify; to cleanse.
To clean out, to exhaust; to empty; to get away from (one) all his money. [Colloq.] De Quincey.
Clean"-cut` (klēn"kŭt), a. See Clear-cut.
Clean"er (?), n. One who, or that which, cleans.
Clean"ing, n. 1. The act of making clean.