Definition of "cleanly"

I'll now lead you to an honest ale-house, where we shall find a cleanly room, lavender in the windows, and twenty ballads stuck about the wall.

1653, Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler

While his lov'd partner boastful of her hoard,Displays the cleanly platter on the board;

1765, Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller, or, A Prospect of Society

There were some flat slabs of rock in the centre, with an excellent well close by, and there we sat in cleanly comfort while we made our first plans for the invasion of this new country.

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, “‘X’”, in The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton

With cleanly powder dry their hair.

1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Alma: Or, The Progress of the Mind”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […]

Through his fine handling and his cleanly play.

1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds Tale.”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […]

He was very cleanly dressed.

1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 15, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850

liue cleanly, as a Nobleman should do

c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene iv]

The boy will do well certain : give him grace To have a quick hand and convey things cleanly

c. 1616, Thomas Middleton, The Witch