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Snakelike.

An aquatic bird of the southern United States (Platus anhinga); the darter, or snakebird.

An animal, invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye. See Infusoria.

A division of Amphineura in which the body is naked or covered with slender spines or setæ, but is without shelly plates.

y judgment; intellection; perception. Simple apprehension denotes no more than the soul's naked intellection of an object. Glanvill.

Naked spaces between the feathered areas of birds. See Pteryliæ.

8 and 6.4 magnitude respectively), appearing as a single star of the 5.3 magnitude to the naked eye.

A division of Hydroidea in which the zooids are naked, or not inclosed in a capsule. See Tubularian.

e. Baboons have dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the buttocks. They are mostly African. See Mandrill, and Chacma, and Drill an ape.

Nakedly; without reserve; inelegantly.

Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.

Without covering; nakedly.

f the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital.

One of a class of legendary heroes, who fought frenzied by intoxicating liquors, and naked, regardless of wounds. Longfellow.

To encounter; to remain firm under (a hardship); to endure; to suffer; to undergo. Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm. Shak.

two feet; two-footed. By which the man, when heavenly life was ceased, Became a helpless, naked, biped beast. Byrom.

Most part of this noble lineage carried upon their body for a natural birthmark, . . . a snake. Sir T. North.

An herbaceous plant of the genus Polygonum, section Bistorta; snakeweed; adderwort. Its root is used in medicine as an astringent.

The wound made by biting; as, the pain of a dog's or snake's bite; the bite of a mosquito.

ed side; the side on which one is least able or disposed to see danger. Swift. -- Blind snake (Zoöl.), a small, harmless, burrowing snake, of the family Typhlopidæ, with rudimentary eyes. -- Blind spot (Anat.), the point in the retina of the eye where the optic nerve enters, and which is insensible to light. -- Blin…