Cleanest

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Clean \Clean\ (kl[=e]n), a. [Compar. {Cleaner} (kl[=e]n"[~e]r);
     superl. {Cleanest}.] [OE. clene, AS. cl[=ae]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.


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     2. Free from that which is useless or injurious; without
        defects; as, clean land; clean timber.
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     3. Free from awkwardness; not bungling; adroit; dexterous;
        as, a clean trick; a clean leap over a fence.
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     4. Free from errors and vulgarisms; as, a clean style.
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     5. Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.
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              When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt
              not make clean riddance of corners of thy field.
                                                    --Lev. xxiii.
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     6. Free from moral defilement; sinless; pure.
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              Create in me a clean heart, O God.    --Ps. li. 10
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              That I am whole, and clean, and meet for Heaven
                                                    --Tennyson.
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     7. (Script.) Free from ceremonial defilement.
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     8. Free from that which is corrupting to the morals; pure in
        tone; healthy. "Lothair is clean." --F. Harrison.
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     9. Well-proportioned; shapely; as, clean limbs.
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     {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}.
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