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Clean [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. 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.

2. Free from dirt, or other foul matter; as clean water; a clean cup; a clean floor.

3. Free from weeds or stones; as clean land; a clean garden or field.

4. Free from knots or branches; as clean timber. In America, clear is generally used.

5. Free from moral impurity; innocent.

6. Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Job 14:4 . Acts 18:6 .

7. Free from ceremonial defilement. Leviticus 10:10 ; Numbers 19:9 .

8. Free from guilt; sanctified; holy. John 13:10 . Psalms 51:7 .

9. That might be eaten by the Hebrews. Genesis 7:2 ; Genesis 8:20 .

10. That might be used. Luke 11:39 .

11. Free from a foul disease; cured of leprosy. 2 Kings 5:10 . Math. 8.

12. Dextrous; adroit; not bungling; free from awkwardness; as a clean feat; a clean boxer.

13. 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 [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Quite; perfectly; wholly; entirely; fully; indicating separation or complete removal of every part. The people passed clean over Jordan. Joshua 3:17 . Is his mercy clean gone forever? Psalms 77:8 . This use of clean is not now elegant, and not used except in vulgar language.

2. Without miscarriage; dextrously.

3. Pope came off clean with Homer.

Clean [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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.

Clean [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To render clean; to free from whatever is foul, offensive, or extraneous; to purify; to cleanse.

Clean [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Without limitation or remainder; quite; perfectly; wholly; entirely.

2. Without miscarriage; not bunglingly; dexterously.

Clean [Superlative] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

6. Free from moral defilement; sinless; pure.

7. Free from ceremonial defilement.

8. Free from that which is corrupting to the morals; pure in tone; healthy.

9. Well-proportioned; shapely; as, clean limbs.

Clean-cut [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See Clear-cut.

Clean-limbed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

With well-proportioned, unblemished limbs; as, a clean-limbed young fellow.

Clean-timbered [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Well-proportioned.

Clean-timbered [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Well-proportioned; symmetrical.

Cleaned [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Cleaner [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who, or that which, cleans.

Cleaning [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of making clean.

2. The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc.

Cleaning [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Cleanlily [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a cleanly manner.

Cleanliness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Freedom from dirt, filth, or any foul, extraneous matter.

2. Neatness of person or dress; purity.

Cleanliness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

State of being cleanly; neatness of person or dress.

Cleanly [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. clenly. [from clean.]

2. Free rom dirt, filth, or any foul matter; neat; carefully avoiding filth.

3. Pure; free from mixture; innocent; as cleanly joys.

4. Cleansing; making clean; as cleanly powder.

5. Nice; artful; dextrous; adroit; as a cleanly play; a cleanly evasion.

Cleanly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In a clean manner; neatly; without filth.

Cleanly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. In a clean manner; neatly.

2. Innocently; without stain.

3. Adroitly; dexterously.

Cleanly [Superlative] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Habitually clean; pure; innocent.

2. Cleansing; fitted to remove moisture; dirt, etc.

3. Adroit; skillful; dexterous; artful.

Cleanness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Freedom from dirt, filth, and foreign matter; neatness.

2. Freedom from infection or a foul disease.

3. Exactness; purity; justness; correctness; used of language or style; as, cleanness of expression.

4. Purity; innocence.

5. In scripture, cleanness of hands denotes innocence. cleanness of teeth denotes want of provisions. Amos 4:6 .

Cleanness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The state or quality of being clean.

2. Purity of life or language; freedom from licentious courses.

Cleansable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

That may be lleansed.

Cleansable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Capable of being cleansed.

Cleanse [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To purify; to make clean; to remove filth, or foul matter of any kind, or by any process whateve, as by washing, rubbing, scouring, scraping, purging, ventilation, etc.; as, to cleanse the hands or face to cleanse a garment; to cleanse the bowels; to cleanse a ship; to cleanse an infected house.

2. To free from a foul or infectious disease; to heal. Leviticus 14:4 , 8; Mark 1:42 .

3. To free from ceremonial pollution, and consecrate to a holy use. Numbers 8:15 ; Exek. 43:20.

4. To purify from guilt. 1 John 1:7 .

5. To remove; as, to cleanse a crime.

Cleanse [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean.

Cleansed [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Purified; made clean; purged; healed.

Cleansed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Cleanser [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

He or that which cleanses; in medicine, a detergent.

Cleanser [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who, or that which, cleanses; a detergent.

Cleansing [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The act of purifying, or purging. Mark 1:44 ; Luke 5:14 .

Cleansing [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Purifying; making clean; purging; removing foul or noxious matter from; freeing from guilt.

Cleansing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Cleanthes Encyclopedia Britannica

CLEANTHES, a Stoic philosopher, born at Assos in Asia Minor, about 300 B.C., was originally a boxer. He first listened to the lectures of Crates the Cynic, and then to those of Zeno, the Stoic, supporting himself meanwhile by working all night as water-carrier to a gardener. His apparent idleness aroused suspicion, and he was summoned before the Areopagus; but when his story became known the court offered him a present of ten minae, which he refused to accept. His power of patient endurance, or perhaps his slowness, earned him the title of the Ass; but such was the esteem awakened by his high moral qualities that, on the death of Zeno in 263, he became the leader of the school. He still, however, continued to support himself as before by the labour of his own hands. Among his pupils were his successor, Chrysippus, and Antigonus, king of Macedon, from whom he accepted 2000 minae. The story of his death, which took place about 220 or 225 b.c., is thus related. Being troubled by an ulcer, he had been directed to fast for a short time, but when that time had expired, he still refused to eat on the ground that he was now half-way on the road to death, and need not take the trouble of twice performing the journey....

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Genesis 7:2

Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.

You are to take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate; a pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate;

Genesis 7:8

Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,

The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground

Genesis 8:20

And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Genesis 35:2

Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:

So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.

Exodus 29:36

And thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast made an atonement for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it.

Sacrifice a bull as a sin offering each day for atonement. Purify the altar by making atonement for it, and anoint it to consecrate it.

Leviticus 4:12

Even the whole bullock shall he carry forth without the camp unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn him on the wood with fire: where the ashes are poured out shall he be burnt.

all the rest of the bull—he must take outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place where the ashes are poured out, and there he must burn it on a wood fire on the ash heap.

Leviticus 6:11

And he shall put off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean place.

Then he must take off his garments, put on other clothes, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place.

Leviticus 7:19

And the flesh that toucheth any unclean thing shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire: and as for the flesh, all that be clean shall eat thereof.

Meat that touches anything unclean must not be eaten; it is to be burned up. As for any other meat, anyone who is ceremonially clean may eat it.

Leviticus 10:10

And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;

You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean,

Leviticus 10:14

And the wave breast and heave shoulder shall ye eat in a clean place; thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee: for they be thy due, and thy sons’ due, which are given out of the sacrifices of peace offerings of the children of Israel.

And you and your sons and daughters may eat the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution in a ceremonially clean place, because these portions have been assigned to you and your children from the peace offerings of the sons of Israel.

Leviticus 11:32

And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel it be, wherein any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even; so it shall be cleansed.

When one of them dies and falls on something, that article becomes unclean; any article of wood, clothing, leather, sackcloth, or any implement used for work must be rinsed with water and will remain unclean until evening; then it will be clean.

Leviticus 11:36

Nevertheless a fountain or pit, wherein there is plenty of water, shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcase shall be unclean.

Nevertheless, a spring or cistern containing water will remain clean, but one who touches a carcass in it will be unclean.

Leviticus 11:37

And if any part of their carcase fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it shall be clean.

If a carcass falls on any seed for sowing, the seed is clean;

Leviticus 11:47

To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten.

You must distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between animals that may be eaten and those that may not.’”

Leviticus 12:7

Who shall offer it before the LORD, and make an atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the law for her that hath born a male or a female.

And the priest will present them before the LORD and make atonement for her; and she shall be ceremonially cleansed from her flow of blood. This is the law for a woman giving birth, whether to a male or to a female.

Leviticus 12:8

And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons; the one for the burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for her, and she shall be clean.

But if she cannot afford a lamb, she shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. Then the priest will make atonement for her, and she will be clean.’”

Leviticus 13:6

And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day: and, behold, if the plague be somewhat dark, and the plague spread not in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean: it is but a scab: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.

The priest will examine him again on the seventh day, and if the sore has faded and has not spread on the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean; it is a rash. The person must wash his clothes and be clean.

Leviticus 13:7

But if the scab spread much abroad in the skin, after that he hath been seen of the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen of the priest again:

But if the rash spreads further on his skin after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he must present himself again to the priest.

Leviticus 13:13

Then the priest shall consider: and, behold, if the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague: it is all turned white: he is clean.

the priest shall examine him, and if the disease has covered his entire body, he is to pronounce the infected person clean. Since it has all turned white, he is clean.

Leviticus 13:17

And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the plague be turned into white; then the priest shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague: he is clean.

The priest will reexamine him, and if the infection has turned white, the priest is to pronounce the infected person clean; then he is clean.