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In a naïve manner.

Native simplicity; unaffected plainness or ingenuousness; artlessness. A story which pleases me by its naïveté -- that is, by its unconscious ingenuousness. De Quincey.

, n. Naïveté. Carlyle.

,v.t. To make naked. [Obs.] Chaucer. Come, be ready, nake your swords. Old Play.

Having no clothes on; uncovered; nude; bare; as, a naked body; a naked limb; a naked sword.

In a naked manner; without covering or disguise; manifestly; simply; barely.

The condition of being naked.

Same as Nacre.

The gavial. [Written also nako.]

Ale; also, an alehouse. [Obs.] Great feasts at the nale. Chaucer.

An awl. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Tusser.

Am not. [Obs.]

Capable of being named.

A distraining or levying of a distress; an impounding. Burrill.

A large North American lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush). It is usually spotted with red, and sometimes weighs over forty pounds. Called also Mackinaw trout, lake trout, lake salmon, salmon trout, togue, and tuladi.

Affectedly pretty; weakly sentimental; finical; insipid. Thackeray. Namby-pamby madrigals of love. W. Gifford.

The title by which any person or thing is known or designated; a distinctive specific appellation, whether of an individual or a class. Whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. Gen. ii. 19. What's in a name That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. Shak.…

Without a name; not having been given a name; as, a nameless star. Waller.

In a nameless manner.

By name; by particular mention; specifically; especially; expressly. [Obs.] Chaucer. The solitariness of man ...God hath namely and principally ordered to prevent by marriage. Milton.