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Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; threadbare clothes. "A threadbare cope." Chaucer.

To walk or march with labor; to jog along; to move wearily. And trudged to Rome upon my naked feet. Dryden.

A genus of hydroids having large, naked, flowerlike hydranths at the summits of long, slender, usually simple, stems. The gonophores are small, and form clusters at the bases of the outer tentacles.

One of the naked, inflatable air sacs on the neck of the prairie chicken and other species of grouse.

To strip of clothes or covering; to make naked. I. Watts. [We] do groan being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon. 2 Cor. v. 4.

Not yet clothed; wanting clothes; naked. -- Un*cloth"ed*ly, adv. [Obs.] Bacon.

A chart or catalogue of fixed stars, especially of stars visible to the naked eye.

The body, or naked ground, of the Corinthian and Composite capital; -- called also tambour, and drum.

ed in a true ovary; Gymnosperms, having few or no ducts in the woody fiber, and the seeds naked. 2. Monocotyledons (called also Endogens). -- Seeds with single cotyledon. Stems with slender bundles of woody fiber not concentrically arranged, and with no true bark.} II. Cryptogamia.

A naked fleshy, and usually wrinkled and highly colored, process of the skin hanging from the chin or throat of a bird or reptile.

era of the family Meliphagidæ. These birds usually have a large and conspicuous wattle of naked skin hanging down below each ear. They are natives of Australia and adjacent islands.

Nakedness. [Obs.] Chapman.

c] Even in the porch he him did win. Spenser. And when the stony path began, By which the naked peak they wan, Up flew the snowy ptarmigan. Sir W. Scott.

large, long- legged, wading birds belonging to the genus Tantalus. The head and neck are naked or scantily covered with feathers. The American wood ibis (Tantalus loculator) is common in Florida. -- Wood lark (Zoöl.), a small European lark (Alauda arborea), which, like, the skylark, utters its notes while on the wing…

To wrestle. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.] Who wrastleth best naked, with oil enoint. Chaucer.