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Naked   /nˈeɪkəd/   Listen
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Naked  adj.  
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; as, naked to invasion. "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." "Thy power is full naked." "Behold my bosom naked to your swords."
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 saw now left naked."
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." "All things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do."
5.
Mere; simple; plain; as, the naked truth. "The very naked name of love."
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.
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.
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.
Synonyms: Nude; bare; denuded; uncovered; unclothed; exposed; unarmed; plain; defenseless.






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"Naked" Quotes from Famous Books



... see with the naked eye the lowering down of a ship's boat over the brig's side, and that made him quickly focus his glass again, and while he was busy scanning the boat as it kissed the water and the oars fell over the side, Joe Cross came up behind him ...
— The Ocean Cat's Paw - The Story of a Strange Cruise • George Manville Fenn

... Animals and Plants under Domestication,' vol. i. p. 254.) an exactly analogous variation in the hackles of a sub-variety of the game- cock, in which the tips, having a metallic lustre, "are separated from the lower part of the feather by a symmetrically shaped transparent zone, composed of the naked portions of the barbs." The lower margin or base of the dark-blue centre of the ocellus is deeply indented on the line of the shaft. The surrounding zones likewise shew traces, as may be seen in the drawing (Fig. 54), of indentations, or rather ...
— The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex • Charles Darwin

... been guilty of sorcery by the aid of inspiration furnished during a dance. The whirling dance of the Eastern dervish is well known. Dancing also figures in the Bible. The Jews danced around the golden calf (Ex. xxxii. 19) in a state of nudity. David, too, danced naked before the Lord. Dancing was also part of the religious ceremonies attendant on the worship of Dionysos or Bacchus.[28] Along with the drinking of certain vegetable decoctions, dancing formed an important part of the witches' ...
— Religion & Sex - Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development • Chapman Cohen

... but you shall, though!" exclaimed Hayraddin. "I swear to you, by all that ever fools believed in, that you have to do with one, who would care little to strip you naked, bind you to a tree, and leave you ...
— Quentin Durward • Sir Walter Scott

... scoundrel, and he would add,—of the most dangerous kind too,—because a sly one; and that he verily believed, more honest, well-meaning people were bubbled out of their goods and money by it in one twelve-month, than by pocket-picking and shop-lifting in seven. In the naked temper which a merry heart discovered, he would say there was no danger,—but to itself:—whereas the very essence of gravity was design, and consequently deceit;—'twas a taught trick to gain credit of the world for more sense and knowledge than a man was worth; and ...
— The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman • Laurence Sterne


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