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Clean bill of health   /klin bɪl əv hɛlθ/   Listen
adjective
Clean  adj.  (compar. cleaner; superl. cleanest)  
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, a clean 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."
6.
Free from moral defilement; sinless; pure. "Create in me a clean heart, O God." "That I am whole, and clean, and meet for Heaven"
7.
(Script.) Free from ceremonial defilement.
8.
Free from that which is corrupting to the morals; pure in tone; healthy. "Lothair is clean."
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.





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"Clean bill of health" Quotes from Famous Books



... case; we must do all we can for him. Providentially, here is an emetic I had just mixed for a bilious patient; here, Lexiphanes, drink it off; the other man can wait; let us purge you of this vocal derangement, and get you a clean bill of health. Come along, down with it; you will ...
— Works, V2 • Lucian of Samosata
... State meets the losses to which unfortunate cattle owners maybe subject. This will be the touchstone—trust by the State and statesmanlike generosity by the Nation—that means courage for the now fearful ranchman of the unfenced domain, and the furnishing of a "clean bill of health" for our products seeking a foreign market. Having evinced zeal in doing justice, it can ask for justice—that the rights of our meat-producers be ...
— Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 1, January 5, 1884. - A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside • Various
... was back in the room with a clean bill of health. The official read the certificate and remarked that he was going to send him over to the War Office, where he would make an ...
— Love Eternal • H. Rider Haggard


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