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Free from affectation or disguise; candid; sincere; artless; honest; frank. "An honest mind, and plain." Shak.

Practicing plain dealing; artless. See Plain dealing, under Dealing. Shak.

Frank; sincere; artless. Milton. -- Plain"-heart`ed*ness, n.

To talk much and idly; to prate; hence, to talk lightly and artlessly, like a child; to utter child's talk.

Simple; artless; unadorned; unaffected. Pope. Rustic moth (Zoöl.), any moth belonging to Agrotis and allied genera. Their larvæ are called cutworms. See Cutworm. -- Rustic work. (a) (Arch.) Cut stone facing which has the joints worked with grooves or channels, the face of each block projecting beyond the joint, so tha…

The quality or state of being rustic; rustic manners; rudeness; simplicity; artlessness. The sweetness and rusticity of a pastoral can not be so well expressed in any other tongue as in the Greek, when rightly mixed and qualified with the Doric dialect. Addison. The Saxons were refined from their rusticity. Sir W. Scot…

Artless in manner; unaffected; unconstrained; natural; inartificial;; straightforward. In simple manners all the secret lies. Young.

Artless; guileless; simple-hearted; undesigning; unsuspecting; devoid of duplicity. Blackstone. -- Sim"ple-mind`ed*ness, n.

Artlessness of mind; freedom from cunning or duplicity; lack of acuteness and sagacity. Marquis Dorset, a man, for his harmless simplicity neither misliked nor much regarded. Hayward. In wit a man; simplicity a child. Pope.

Having a single purpose; hence, artless; guileless; single- hearted.

. I. Watts. Let us first rid ourselves of sophisms, those of depraved men, and those of heartless philosophers. I. Taylor.

Lacking art or skill; artless. Congreve. -- Un*art"ful*ly, adv. Swift. Burke.

Having no artful, ulterior, or fraudulent purpose; sincere; artless; simple.