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Having no clothes on; uncovered; nude; bare; as, a naked body; a naked limb; a naked sword.

In a naked manner; without covering or disguise; manifestly; simply; barely.

The condition of being naked.

Naked as when born.

small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup; -- called a naked seed by the earlier botanists. [Written also akene and achænium.]

Naked; having no floral envelope, neither calyx nor corolla.

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.