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Naked eye   /nˈeɪkəd aɪ/   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 eye" Quotes from Famous Books



... an object on a dead tree, that rose a little apart from those around it, and which stood quite near the extreme point in the forest, toward which they were all proceeding, had caught his attention. The distance was still too great to ascertain by the naked eye what that object was; but a single look with the glass showed that it was a bear. This was an old enemy of the bee-hunter, who often encountered the animal, endeavoring to get at the honey, and he had on divers occasions been obliged ...
— Oak Openings • James Fenimore Cooper
... A telescope, maybe, would have shown it as the thing they'd worked on and fought for. But it didn't look like that to the naked eye. It was just a tiny speck of incandescence gliding with grave deliberation across the sky. It was a sliver of sunlight, moving ...
— Space Platform • Murray Leinster
... little after nine o'clock when he entered the docks, and the Electra was visible to the naked eye, steaming through the blue water ...
— Henry Dunbar - A Novel • M. E. Braddon
... amongst the grass. This was the common BURR, so detrimental to the Australian wool. Small as are the capitula of this flower, its seeds or achenia are armed with awns having reflexed hooks scarcely visible to the naked eye; it is these that are found so troublesome among ...
— Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia • Thomas Mitchell
... all the woes of life, such as washing, shaving and buying boots, is responsible for this also. Potatoes are more productive than Latin roots, are twice as nourishing and cannot be parsed. Teach a girl how to recognise an egg by the naked eye, and then teach her how to cook it. Teach a boy how to discover the kind of trees eggs grow on and what is the best kind of soil to plant them in. Teach a girl how to keep her hands from scratching, her tongue from telling lies, and her teeth from dropping ...
— Here are Ladies • James Stephens


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