Cleanly, adv., 1) in a clean manner, without stain: “and live c. as a nobleman should do,” H4A V, 4, 169. -- 2) quite, entirely: “ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled with much ado the cold fault c. out,” Ven. 694. “hast not thou full often struck a doe, and borne her c. by the keeper's nose?” Tit. II, 1, 94 (== in the very face of the keeper).
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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