Nā'ked, a.
(60), a. [A-S. nacod, nacud, naced, O. Fries. nakad, Goth. nagaths, O. H. Ger. nakot, nacot, nakhut, M. H. Ger. nacket, N. H. Ger. nackt, D. naakt, Icel. naktr, nakinn, Sw. naken, Dan. nögen, allied to Skr. nagna, Russ. nagii, Lith. nogas.]
Sense 1. Having no clothes on; uncovered; bare; nude; as, a naked body, or a naked limb.
Sense 2. Hence, having no means of defense or protection; open; unarmed; defenseless.
Behold my bosom naked to your swords. Addison.
Sense 3. Not concealed or disguised; open to view; manifest; plain.
All things are naked and opened to the eyes of him with whom we have to do. Heb. iv. 13.
Sense 4. Not enveloped or dressed off with any thing of another kind; devoid of foreign appendages; without addition, exaggeration, excuses, or the like.
The truth appears so naked on my side, That any purblind eye may find it out. Shak.
Sense 5. Unprovided with desirable or needful accessories, means, &c.; destitute, unaided; bare. “Patriots who had exposed themselves for the public, and whom they saw now left naked.” Milton.
Sense 6. Hence, mere; simple. “The naked reason.” Burke.
Sense 7. (Bot.) Without pubescence; as, a naked leaf or stem; not covered by the customary parts, or bare, as a flower without a calyx, a stem without leaves, and the like.
Sense 8. (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 eye, the eye alone, unaided by glasses, a telescope, microscope, or the like.—Naked flooring (Carp.), the timber-work which supports a floor. Gwilt.