Clǽne

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - clǽne

According to the Old English Dictionary:

clǽne
ad I. clean, so as to leave nothing remaining:--Dó ꝥ fám of clǽne, Lch. ii. 94, 8, 20. Feormige man þone pyt clǽne purgetur puteus, Ll. Th. ii. 220, 20. Wé habbað Godes hús inne and úte clǽne berýpte, Wlfst. 157, 18. Nán gesceaft swá cléne onwæg ne gewít, þæt hí æft ne cume, ne swá clǽne ne forwyrð, ꝥ hí tó hwan-hwugu ne weorðe, Shrn. 198, 17, 18. Swǽ clǽne hió (learning) wæs oðfeallenu, Past. 3, 13. Ǽlcere synne swá clǽne ámerede, swá ǽfre ǽnig gold mæg clǽnost ámerod weorðan, Wlfst. 96, 14. II. in full, without reservation:--Man sealde Godwine clǽne his eorldóm, swá full and swá forð swá hé fyrmest áhte, Chr. 1052; P. 180, 29. [O. H. Ger. chleino.] clæne

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