cleansable (klenzabl)

[ Whanne ye shalle drynke, your mouthe clence withe a clothe. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), р. 6. Where ploughmen cleanse the earth of rubbish, weed, and filth, And give the fallow lands their seasons and their tilth. Drayton, Polyolbion, iii. 351. This river the Jews proffered the Pope to cleanse, so they might have what they found. Add is on, Travels in Italy. Dryden. 2. To free from moral impurity or guilt. An ant is a very cleanly insect, and throws out of her nest all the small remains of the corn on which she feeds. Add is on. Some plain but cleanly country maid. 2. Free from injurious or polluting influence; pure; innocent: as, " cleanly joys," Glanville. 3t. Cleansing; making clean. The fair With cleanly powder dry their hair. Lord, grawnt me, ar (before) that I deye, Sorowe of herte with terys of eye, Clene clensyd for thy merc ye. Holy Rood (E. E. T. S.), p. 193. Prior . Cleanse thou me from secret faults. Ps. xix. 12. IMG:content-0560.png:[blocks in formation] 1037 Simple ideas are clear when they are such as the objects themselves from whence they were taken did or might, in a well-ordered sensation or perception, present them. Locke, Human Understanding, II. xxix. 2. A concept is said to be clear when the degree of consciousne is such as enables us to distinguish it as a whole from others. Sir W. Hamilton , Lectures on Logic, ix. 28. It was clear that, of whatever sins the King of Pru ia might have been guilty, he was now the injured party. Macaulay , Frederic the Great. 7. Obvious to the senses; distinctly and easily perceptible. As both theyr trauth & penance well deserude All in fine gold to haue theyr image kerude, For cleere recorde of theyr most woorthy fames. Putten ham, Par then i a des, ii. Drinking also of that muddie vnsauourie water: and thus 8. Free from anything that perturbs; und is Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1055. returne they, cleansing from all their sinnes. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 269. cleanser (klen'zèr), n. One who or that which cleanses. Honey of roses, taken internally, is a good cleanser. Arbuthnot . turbed by care or pa ion; unruffled; serene; calm. To whom the Son, with calm aspect and clear, Made answer. Milton , P. L., v. 733. Till ev'n the clear face of the guilele King... Became her bane. Tennyson, Guinevere. clean-shaped (klēn'shāpt), a. Symmetrical in 9. Free from guilt or blame; morally unblemshape; well-proportioned. cleansible, a. See cleansable. cleansing (klen'zing), p. a. [Ppr. of cleanse, v.] Adapted to cleanse and purify; designed for or devoted to purifying. - Cleansing days, Ash Wednesday and the three days following. - Cleansing week. Same as Chaste week (which see, under chaste ). cleansing-vat -vat (klen'zing-vat), n. In brewing , a vat in which the fermentation of the completed. The yeast pa es out of a bunghole, and the supply is kept up from a store-vat. clean-timber edt (klēn'tim"berd), a. Well-proportioned. [Rare.] I think Hector was not so clean - timbered . Shak., L. L. L., v. 2.