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

A genus of harmless colubrine snakes.

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

t to drag thee down. Tennyson. A needless Alexandrine ends the song That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Pope.

A genus of venomous snakes found both in America and the Old World. Many species are known. See Coral snake, under Coral.

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.

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.

r coverings of animals; any parts of animals which are shed or cast off, as the skins of snakes, the shells of lobsters, etc.

rt, more particularly, the outer cuticular layer, as the shells of crustaceans, skins of snakes, etc.; molting; ecdysis.

nce, a zigzag fence composed of rails crossing one another at their ends; -- called also snake fence, or Virginia rail fence. -- To be on the fence, to be undecided or uncommitted in respect to two opposing parties or policies. [Colloq.]

Pertaining to, or inhabiting, a fen; abounding in fens; swampy; boggy. "Fenny snake." Shak.

t (Trigonocephalus lanceolatus) of Brazil and the West Indies. It is allied to the rattlesnake, but has no rattle.

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.

and, king-at-arms to the Order of the Garter; -- often abbreviated to Garter. -- Garter snake (Zoöl.), one of several harmless American snakes of the genus Eutænia, of several species (esp. E. saurita and E. sirtalis); one of the striped snakes; -- so called from its conspicuous stripes of color.

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.

A large burrowing snake (Spilotes Couperi) of the Southern United States. Gopher drift (Mining), an irregular prospecting drift, following or seeking the ore without regard to regular grade or section. Raymond.