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Definitions for: Naked [adj] completely unclothed; "bare bodies"; "naked from the waste up"; "a nude model"
[adj] devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure; "naked ambition"; "raw fury"; "you may kill someone someday with your raw power"
[adj] having no protecting or concealing cover; "naked to mine enemies"- Shakespeare
[adj] (of the eye or ear e.g.) without the aid of an optical or acoustical device or instrument; "visible to the naked eye"; "clearly audible to the unaided ear"
Webster (1913) Definition: Na"ked, a. [AS. nacod; akin to D. naakt, G. nackt, OHG.
nacchot, nahhot, Icel. n["o]kvi[eth]r, nakinn, Sw. naken,
Dan. n["o]gen, Goth. naqa[thorn]s, Lith. n[*u]gas, Russ.
nagii, L. nudus, Skr. nagna. [root]266. Cf. Nude.]
1. Having no clothes on; uncovered; nude; bare; as, a naked
body; a naked limb; a naked sword.
2. Having no means of defense or protection; open; unarmed;
defenseless.
Thy power is full naked. --Chaucer.
Behold my bosom naked to your swords. --Addison.
3. Unprovided with needful or desirable accessories, means of
sustenance, etc.; destitute; unaided; bare.
Patriots who had exposed themselves for the public,
and whom they say now left naked. --Milton.
4. Without addition, exaggeration, or excuses; not concealed
or disguised; open to view; manifest; plain.
The truth appears so naked on my side, That any
purblind eye may find it out. --Shak.
All things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him
with whom we to do. --Heb. iv. 13.
5. Mere; simple; plain.
The very naked name of love. --Shak.
6. (Bot.) Without pubescence; as, a naked leaf or stem; bare,
or not covered by the customary parts, as a flower without
a perianth, a stem without leaves, seeds without a
pericarp, buds without bud scales.
7. (Mus.) Not having the full complement of tones; -- said of
a chord of only two tones, which requires a third tone to
be sounded with them to make the combination pleasing to
the ear; as, a naked fourth or fifth.
Naked bed, a bed the occupant of which is naked, no night
linen being worn in ancient times. --Shak.
Naked eye, the eye alone, unaided by glasses, or by
telescope, microscope, or the like.
Naked-eyed medusa. (Zo["o]l.) See Hydromedusa.
Naked flooring (Carp.), the timberwork which supports a
floor. --Gwilt.
Naked mollusk (Zo["o]l.), a nudibranch.
Naked wood (Bot.), a large rhamnaceous tree ({Colibrina
reclinata}) of Southern Florida and the West Indies,
having a hard and heavy heartwood, which takes a fine
polish. --C. S. Sargent.
Syn: Nude; bare; denuded; uncovered; unclothed; exposed;
unarmed; plain; defenseless.
Synonyms: au naturel(p), bare, defenseless, nude, open, overt, raw, unaided, unassisted, unclothed, unprotected
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