Dictionary entry

Clean (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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. “Pope came off clean with Homer.” Henley.