1. The state or quality of being clean.
2. Purity of life or language; freedom from licentious courses. Chaucer.
CLEANSABLE
Cleans"a*ble, a.
Defn: Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood.
CLEANSE
Cleanse, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cleansed; p. pr. & vb. n. Cleansing.]
Etym: [AS. clænsian, fr. clæne clean. See Clean.]
Defn: To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean. If we walk in the light . . . the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin. 1 John i. 7. Can'st thou not minister to a mind diseased, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the suffed bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart Shak.
CLEANSER
Cleans"er, n. Etym: [AS. cl.]
Defn: One who, or that which, cleanses; a detergent. Arbuthnot.
CLEAN-TIMBERED
Clean"-tim`bered, a.
Defn: Well-propotioned; symmetrical. [Poetic] Shak.