CLEAN, quite, or entirely; “CLEAN gone,” entirely out of sight, or away.—_Old, see Cotgrave._—_Shakespere._ CLEAN OUT, to thrash, or beat; to ruin, or bankrupt any one; to take all they have got, by purchase, or force. _De Quincey_, in his article on “Richard Bentley,” speaking of the lawsuit between that great scholar and Dr. Colbatch, remarks that the latter “must have been pretty well CLEANED OUT.”