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Destitude of branches or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked.

The bare skin; as, to strip to the buff. [Colloq.] To be in buff is equivalent to being naked. Wright.

Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden.

A long-tailed South American monkey (Cabus capucinus), having the forehead naked and wrinkled, with the hair on the crown reflexed and resembling a monk's cowl, the rest being of a grayish white; -- called also capucine monkey, weeper, sajou, sapajou, and sai.

A naked, flesh appendage, on the head of a bird, as the wattles of a turkey, etc.

One of the joists framed between a pair of girders in naked flooring.

several pairs of abdominal fleshy legs (prolegs) armed with hooks. Some are hairy, others naked. They usually feed on leaves, fruit, and succulent vegetables, being often very destructive, Many of them are popularly called worms, as the cutworm, cankerworm, army worm, cotton worm, silkworm.

The soft naked sheath at the base of the beak of birds of prey, parrots, and some other birds. See Beak.

A genus of naked pteropods. One species (Clione papilonacea), abundant in the Arctic Ocean, constitutes a part of the food of the Greenland whale. It is sometimes incorrectly called Clio.

he one's self extravagantly. Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. Prov. xxiii. 21 The naked every day he clad, When he put on his clothes. Goldsmith.

The naked fleshy crest or caruncle on the upper part of the bill or hood of a cock or other bird. It is usually red.

apper, clothing, etc. Noah removed the covering of the ark. Gen. viii. 13. They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold. Job. xxiv. 7. A covering over the well's mouth. 2 Sam. xvii. 19.

The hydroid or naked-eyed medusæ. See Hydroidea.

The body. In cuerpo, without full dress, so that the shape of the Body is exposed; hence, naked or uncovered. Exposed in cuerpo to their rage. Hudibras.

The god of love, son of Venus; usually represented as a naked, winged boy with bow and arrow. Pretty dimpled boys, like smiling cupids. Shak.

A naked human skull as the emblem of death; the head of the conventional personification of death. I had rather be married to a death's-head with a bone in his mouth. Shak. Death's-head moth (Zoöl.), a very large European moth (Acherontia atropos), so called from a figure resembling a human skull on the back of the tho…

To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip; to divest; as, to denude one of clothing, or lands.

To disrobe; to strip of apparel; to make naked. Drink disapparels the soul. Junius (1635).

nd of the arm; the outer curve in the middle of the arm when bent. Her arms to the elbows naked. R. of Gloucester.

That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap; as, odds and ends. I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ, And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. Shak.