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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



... the army. Heaven knows what accounts were circulated of the Russians, who, as Bonaparte solemnly stated in his proclamation, had come from the extremity of the world. They were represented as half-naked savages, pillaging, destroying and burning wherever they went. It was even asserted that they were cannibals, and had been seen to eat children. In short, at that period was introduced the denomination of ...
— Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Complete • Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne

... country, where their labor is a source of immense gain, and a power to control the markets of the world, and send them to a land of ignorance, idolatry, and indolence, which was the home of their forefathers, but not theirs? Slavery is a blessing. Were they not in their ancestral land naked, scarcely lifted above brutes, ignorant of the course of the sun, controlled by nature? And in their new abode have they not been taught to know the difference of the seasons, to plough, and plant, and reap, to drive oxen, to tame the horse, to ...
— Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday • Various

... subdued, and Numbers of our Natives have distinguish'd themselves, by their Skill in different Arts and Handicrafts, but till this Humour wears off, of slighting whatever is wrought at Home, it were better they had learn'd to Fast than to Work. We keep Crowds of our Artificers naked who well-deserve to be cloathed; many are as ill hutted as so many Greenlanders or Russian Peasants, who ought to be well housed, if any one thought them worth taking Care of and Encouraging. But what is still ...
— A Dialogue Between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. • Anonymous

... ugly, even the mother was forced to admit that to herself, though she only said it was 'large' and 'strong.' 'You won't need any teaching when you are once in the water,' she told him, with a glance of surprise at the dull brown which covered his back, and at his long naked neck. And indeed he did not, though he was not half so pretty to look at as the little yellow ...
— The Orange Fairy Book • Andrew Lang

... awful weeks I have faced the primeval. God stripped me naked—naked as Adam, and like him, left me alone. In my hunger I cried out; in my weakness I prayed. No answer—nothing but silence—horrible, overpowering silence. Then in my despair I began to curse—to strike the trees with ...
— Homo - 1909 • F. Hopkinson Smith


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