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Having no means of defense or protection; open; unarmed; defenseless. Thy power is full naked. Chaucer. Behold my bosom naked to your swords. Addison.

Part of a helmet projecting to protect the nose; a nose guard.

A cap worn in bed to protect the head, or in undress.

Covered; protected. [Obs.]

A sheet-iron cover for articles in a leer or annealing arch, to protect them from drafts. Omnibus bill, a legislative bill which provides for a number of miscellaneous enactments or appropriations. [Parliamentary Cant, U.S.] -- Omnibus box, a large box in a theater, on a level with the stage and having communication wi…

seum, court, or other assembly; liable to the approach, trespass, or attack of any one; unprotected; exposed. If Demetrius . . . have a matter against any man, the law is open and there are deputies. Acts xix. 33. The service that I truly did his life, Hath left me open to all injuries. Shak.

Having an operculum, or an apparatus for protecting the gills; -- said of shells and of fishes.

The fold of integument, usually supported by bony plates, which protects the gills of most fishes and some amphibians; the gill cover; the gill lid.

A person excluded from the benefit of the law, or deprived of its protection. Blackstone.

The act of outlawing; the putting a man out of the protection of law, or the process by which a man (as an absconding criminal) is deprived of that protection.

A kind of loose trousers worn over others to protect them from soiling.

A shoe that is worn over another for protection from wet or for extra warmth; esp., an India-rubber shoe; a galoche.

A stuffed guard or protection; esp., one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.

A patron; a protector.

Hence: That which affords effectual protection or security; a sateguard; as, the trial by jury is the palladium of our civil rights. Blackstone.

One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. See Illust. of Teredo.

An intercepting mound, erected in any part of a fortification to protect the defenders from a rear or ricochet fire; a traverse. Farrow.

A low wall, especially one serving to protect the edge of a platform, roof, bridge, or the like.

A kind of small umbrella used by women as a protection from the sun.

ment carried by neutral merchant vessels in time of war, to certify their nationality and protect them from belligerents; a sea letter.