cleanhanded (klenhan ded)

clean hands.-2. Figuratively, free from moral taint or suspicion; guiltle e of wrong-doing: now used mostly of fidelity to pecuniary trusts: as, he came out of the transaction clean - handed. cleaning (klē'ning), n. [Verbal n. of clean, v.] 1. The act of making clean.-2. The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc. cle cleaning-machine (klē'ning-ma-shēn"), n. In silk-manuf., a machine in which dust and other for other foreign substances are removed from silk thread by drawing it through a brush. Knots and tangles are taken out by drawing the thread through a notch in a bar. If a knot catches, the bobbin which carries that thread is lifted off the friction-roll which drives it, and its motion ceases until the operator frees the thread. cleanish (klē'nish), a. [ IMG:content-0559.png:[blocks in formation] (c) Exactne ; purity; justne ; correctne : used of language or style. He minded only the clearne of his satire, and the cleanne of expre ion. Dryden, Juvenal's Satires. (d) Moral purity; innocence: freedom from anything dishonorable, immoral, or sinful. Vnder shadow of shame shewid forth hir ernd, With a compas of clennes to colour hir spec he. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 523. Clanne e of the comune and clerkes clene lyuynge Made unite holychurche in holyne e stonde. Piers Plowman (C), xxii. 381. Pope . The cleanne and purity of one's mind.