The Collaborative International Dictionary
Naked \Na"ked\ (n[=a]"k[e^]d), a. [AS. nacod; akin to D. naakt, G. nackt, OHG. nacchot, nahhot, Icel. n["o]kvi[eth]r, nakinn, Sw. naken, Dan. n["o]gen, Goth. naqa[thorn]s, Lith. n[*u]gas, Russ. nagii, L. nudus, Skr. nagna. [root]266. Cf. Nude.]
Having no clothes on; uncovered; nude; bare; as, a naked body; a naked limb; a naked sword.
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Having no means of defense or protection; open; unarmed; defenseless; as, naked to invasion.
Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
--King Henry VIII., Act iii. sc. 2 (Shakespeare)Thy power is full naked.
--Chaucer.Behold my bosom naked to your swords.
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Unprovided with needful or desirable accessories, means of sustenance, etc.; destitute; unaided; bare.
Patriots who had exposed themselves for the public, and whom they saw now left naked.
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Without addition, exaggeration, or excuses; not concealed or disguised; open to view; manifest; plain.
The truth appears so naked on my side, That any purblind eye may find it out.
--Shak.All things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
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Mere; simple; plain; as, the naked truth.
The very naked name of love.
--Shak. (Bot.) Without pubescence; as, a naked leaf or stem; bare, or not covered by the customary parts, as a flower without a perianth, a stem without leaves, seeds without a pericarp, buds without bud scales.
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(Mus.) Not having the full complement of tones; -- said of a chord of only two tones, which requires a third tone to be sounded with them to make the combination pleasing to the ear; as, a naked fourth or fifth.
Naked bed, a bed the occupant of which is naked, no night linen being worn in ancient times.
--Shak.Naked eye, the eye alone, unaided by eyeglasses, or by telescope, microscope, or other magnifying device.
Naked-eyed medusa. (Zo["o]l.) See Hydromedusa.
Naked flooring (Carp.), the timberwork which supports a floor.
--Gwilt.Naked mollusk (Zo["o]l.), a nudibranch.
Naked wood (Bot.), a large rhamnaceous tree ( Colibrina reclinata) of Southern Florida and the West Indies, having a hard and heavy heartwood, which takes a fine polish.
--C. S. Sargent.Syn: Nude; bare; denuded; uncovered; unclothed; exposed; unarmed; plain; defenseless.
Usage examples of "naked wood".
Then he went over to where a naked wood nymph posed erotical.
Then he went over to where a naked wood nymph posed erotically in stone.
The door to Napier's room flew open, splinters of blond naked wood hissing across the floor.
The plafond was decorated with dancing circles of naked wood-nymphs and leering satyrs.
The Second draped tarps across the unfinished buildings that composed half the camp, protecting the naked wood from the savage downpour.
The Second draped tarps across the unfinished buildings that composed half the camp, protecting the naked wood from the savage downpour: Then they took to their shelters, huddled together, and listened to the rain.
It had taken him three years to get the money and the permission of his superiors in the Scottish Church, but now he was here, the posts and beams of his church were rising, their white and naked wood a bright rebuke to the dark forest of barbarism from which they had been hewn.
The brown paint on the door was so old that the naked wood showed between the rents.