Na·ked a.
 1. Having no clothes on; uncovered; nude; bare; as, a naked body; a naked limb; a naked sword.
 2. Having no means of defense or protection; open; unarmed; defenseless; as, naked to invasion.
    Thy power is full naked.   --Chaucer.
    Behold my bosom naked to your swords.   --Addison.
 3. 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.   --Milton.
 4. 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.   --Heb. iv. 13.
 5. Mere; simple; plain; as, the naked truth.
    The very naked name of love.   --Shak.
 6. 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.
 7. 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. Zool. See Hydromedusa.
 Naked flooring Carp., the timberwork which supports a floor. --Gwilt.
 Naked mollusk Zool., 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.

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