GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

last match results

Found one definition

1.       
   Naked (nāˈkĕd), a. [AS. nacod; akin to D. naakt, G. nackt, OHG. nacchot, nahhot, Icel. nökviðr, nakinn, Sw. naken, Dan. nögen, Goth. naqaþs, Lith. nůgas, Russ. nagii, L. nudus, Skr. nagna. √266.  Cf. Nude.]
   
   [1913 Webster]
   
   
   1. Having no clothes on; uncovered; nude; bare; as, “a naked body; a naked limb; a naked sword.”
   
   [1913 Webster]
   
   
   2. Having no means of defense or protection; open; unarmed; defenseless; as, “naked to invasion”.
   
   [1913 Webster]
   
   Had I but served my God with half the zeal
   
   I served my king, he would not in mine age
   
   Have left me naked to mine enemies. King Henry VIII., Act iii. sc. 2 (Shakespeare)
   
   [PJC]
   
   Thy power is full naked. Chaucer.
   
   [1913 Webster]
   
   Behold my bosom naked to your swords. Addison.
   
   [1913 Webster]
   
   
   3. Unprovided with needful or desirable accessories, means of sustenance, etc.; destitute; unaided; bare.
   
   [1913 Webster]
   
   Patriots who had exposed themselves for the public, and whom they saw now left naked. Milton.
   
   [1913 Webster]
   
   
   4. Without addition, exaggeration, or excuses; not concealed or disguised; open to view; manifest; plain.
   
   [1913 Webster]
   
   The truth appears so naked on my side,                   That any purblind eye may find it out. Shak.
   
   [1913 Webster]
   
   All things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do. Heb. iv. 13.
   
   [1913 Webster]
   
   
   5. Mere; simple; plain; as, “the naked truth”.
   
   [1913 Webster]
   
   The very naked name of love. Shak.
   
   [1913 Webster]
   
   
   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.
   
   [1913 Webster]
   
   
   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”.
   
   [1913 Webster]
   
   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 eyeglasses, or by telescope, microscope, or other magnifying device. -- Naked-eyed medusa. (Zool.) See Hydromedusa. -- Naked flooring (Carp.), the timberwork which supports a floor. Gwilt. -- Naked mollusk (Zool.), 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.
   
   [1913 Webster]
   
   Syn. -- Nude; bare; denuded; uncovered; unclothed; exposed; unarmed; plain; defenseless.
   
   [1913 Webster]