Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cleaner"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Clean \Clean\, a. [Compar. {Cleaner}; superl. {Cleanest}.] [OE.
clene, AS. cl?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.

2. Free from that which is useless or injurious; without
defects; as, clean land; clean timber.

3. Free from awkwardness; not bungling; adroit; dexterous;
as, aclean trick; a clean leap over a fence.

4. Free from errors and vulgarisms; as, a clean style.

5. Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.

When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt
not make clean riddance of corners of thy field.
--Lev. xxiii.
22.

6. Free from moral defilement; sinless; pure.

Create in me a clean heart, O God. --Ps. li. 10

That I am whole, and clean, and meet for Heaven
--Tennyson.

7. (Script.) Free from ceremonial defilement.

8. Free from that which is corrupting to the morals; pure in
tone; healthy. ``Lothair is clean.'' --F. Harrison.

9. Well-proportioned; shapely; as, clean limbs.

{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}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Cleaner \Clean"er\, n.
One who, or that which, cleans.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

cleaner
n 1: a preparation used in cleaning something [syn: {cleansing
agent}, {cleanser}]
2: the operator of dry-cleaning establishment [syn: {dry
cleaner}]
3: someone whose occupation is cleaning

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