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A name given by Lestiboudois to dicotyledons; -- so called because the plumule is naked.

ly detrimentally; as, exposure to observation, to cold to inconvenience. When we have our naked frailties hid, That suffer in exposure. Shak.

Decoration; ornament; beauty. The flourish of his sober youth Was the pride of naked truth. Crashaw.

Event to come; a future event. All futurities are naked before the All-seeing Eye. South.

t a gloss. It is no part . . . to set on the face of this cause any fairer gloss than the naked truth doth afford. Hooker.

The ramus of the lower jaw of a bird as far as it is naked; -- commonly used in the plural.

Naked-fruited, the fruit either smooth or not adherent to the perianth. Gray.

Having young that are naked when hatched; psilopædic; -- said of certain birds.

A group of acalephs, including the naked-eyed medusæ; the hydromedusæ. Most of them are known to be the free-swimming progeny (gonophores) of hydroids.

of philosophers, said to have been found in India by Alexander the Great, who went almost naked, denied themselves the use of flesh, renounced bodily pleasures, and employed themselves in the contemplation of nature.

A plant that bears naked seeds (i. e., seeds not inclosed in an ovary), as the common pine and hemlock. Cf. Angiosperm.

Having naked seeds, or seeds not inclosed in a capsule or other vessel.

The habitation of a hermit; a secluded residence. Some forlorn and naked hermitage, Remote from all the pleasures of the world. Shak.

pelagic Gastropoda, having the foot developed into a median fin. Some of the species are naked; others, as Carinaria and Atlanta, have thin glassy shells.

phibius), common in the rivers of Africa. It is allied to the hogs, and has a very thick, naked skin, a thick and square head, a very large muzzle, small eyes and ears, thick and heavy body, and short legs. It is supposed to be the behemoth of the Bible. Called also zeekoe, and river horse. A smaller species (H. Liberi…

llyfish which is produced by budding from a hydroid. They are called also Craspedota, and naked-eyed medusæ.

One of the great division of fungi, containing those species which have naked spores borne on free or only fasciculate threads. M. J. Berkley.

mpassible to the critic." Sir W. Scott. Secure of death, I should contemn thy dart Though naked, and impassible depart. Dryden.

ove; sometimes, Venus. Such was his form as painters, when they show Their utmost art, on naked Lores bestow. Dryden. Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love. Shak.

l of them American. They are large and have a very long tail, a strong hooked bill, and a naked space around the eyes. The voice is harsh, and the colors are brilliant and strongly contrasted.