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Having no means of defense or protection; open; unarmed; defenseless. Thy power is full naked. Chaucer. Behold my bosom naked to your swords. Addison.

A person excluded from the benefit of the law, or deprived of its protection. Blackstone.

The act of outlawing; the putting a man out of the protection of law, or the process by which a man (as an absconding criminal) is deprived of that protection.

A shoe that is worn over another for protection from wet or for extra warmth; esp., an India-rubber shoe; a galoche.

A stuffed guard or protection; esp., one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.

Hence: That which affords effectual protection or security; a sateguard; as, the trial by jury is the palladium of our civil rights. Blackstone.

A kind of small umbrella used by women as a protection from the sun.

A man of distinction under whose protection another person placed himself.

A toll or tax paid by passengers, entitling them to safe- conduct and protection. [Obs.] Spelman.

A charm worn as a protection against disease or mischief; an amulet. Coleridge. Now help, ye charming spells and periapts. Shak.

A branch of a plumularian hydroid specially modified in structure for the protection of the gonothecæ.

nd covered with glass, but not artificially heated, -- used in winter for the storing and protection of half-hardly plants, and sometimes in the spring as a forcing bed. -- Pit coal, coal dug from the earth; mineral coal. -- Pit frame, the framework over the shaft of a coal mine. -- Pit head, the surface of the grou…

fresh-water turtles in which the neck can not be retracted, but is bent to one side, for protection. The matamata is an example.

inst foreign control or conquest, the augmentation of its strength and resources, and the protection of its citizens in their rights, with the preservation and improvement of their morals.

One who favors prohibitory duties on foreign goods in commerce; a protectionist.

To doom to destruction; to put out of the protection of law; to outlaw; to exile; as, Sylla and Marius proscribed each other's adherents. Robert Vere, Earl of Oxford, . . . was banished the realm, and proscribed. Spenser.

By way of protection; in a protective manner.

Affording protection; sheltering; defensive. " The favor of a protective Providence." Feltham. Protective coloring (Zoöl.), coloring which serves for the concealment and preservation of a living organism. Cf. Mimicry. Wallace. -- Protective tariff (Polit. Econ.), a tariff designed to secure protection (see Protection,…

One under the care and protection of another.

fencelike structures of wood or metal at the break of the deck, and elsewhere where such protection is needed. Rail fence. See under Fence. -- Rail guard. (a) A device attached to the front of a locomotive on each side for clearing the rail obstructions. (b) A guard rail. See under Guard. -- Rail joint (Railroad), a…