Neat
a.- Free from that which soils, defiles, or disorders; clean; cleanly; tidy.
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Free from what is unbecoming, inappropriate, or tawdry; simple and becoming; pleasing with simplicity; tasteful; chaste;
as, a neat style; aneat dress. -
Free from admixture or adulteration; good of its kind;
as, .neat brandy; to drink one's vodkaneat -
Excellent in character, skill, or performance, etc.; nice; finished; adroit;
as, a neat design; aneat thief. -
With all deductions or allowances made; net.
[In this sense usually written net . SeeNet ,a. , 3.]
neat line (Civil Engin.),
a line to which work is to be built or formed.
Neat work ,
work built or formed to neat lines.

