Naja (naja)

[NL., also Naia, Naga, Najidæ (naj'i-dē), n. pl. [NL., O nyce men, why nake ye yowre backes? Chaucer, Boëthius, iv. meter 7. Come, be ready, nake your swords, Think of your wrongs! naked (nā'ked), a. Tourneur, Revenger's Tragedy, v. [ naced, naked (> næced, nakedne ), = OFries. nakad, naked = D. naakt = MLG. naket, nakent, nakendich = LG. naked, nakd = OHG. nacchut, nahhut, nachot, MHG. nacket, nackent, G. nackt, nackend (dial. also nackig, nachtig ) = Icel. nök vidhr, later naktr = Goth. nakwaths = Ir. nochd =W. noeth = L. nūdus (for * novdus, * nogvidus?) (> It. Sp. Pg. nudo = F.nu = E. nude ), also with diff. term. OFries. naken = Icel. nakinn = Sw. naken = Dan. nögen = Skt. nagna, naked; these being appar. orig. pp. forms in -ed2 and -en1 respectively; but no verb appears in the earliest records (the verb nake being a back formation, of later origin); also, akin to OBulg. nagu = Serv. nag = Bohem. nahy = Pol. nag i = Ru . nagoi = Lith. nogas = Lett. nōks, naked; root unknown.] 1. Unclothed; without clothing or covering; bare; nude: as, a naked body or limb. The word is sometimes used in the English Bible and in other translations in the sense of scantily clad that is, thing on but a short tunic or shirt-like undergarmaving no out the long sheet-like mantle or outer garment. There we we he vs and bayned vs all nakyd in the water of Iordan, trustynge to be therby we hen and made clene from all our synnes. Sir R. Guylforde , Pylgrymage, p. 42. And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked . Mark xiv. 52. 2. Without covering; especially, without the usual or customary covering; exposed; bare: as, a naked sword. IMG:content-1194.png:[blocks in formation] He shakes a naked lance of purest steel, With sleeves turn'd up. Beau. and Fl . , Knight of Burning Pestle, iii. 2. Specifically-( a ) In bot . , noting flowers without a calyx, ovules or seeds not in a closed ovary (gymnosperms), stems without leaves, and parts destitute of hairs. (b) In zool ., noting mollusks when the body is not defended by a calcareous shell. (c) In entom., without hairs, bristles, scales, or other covering on the surface. 3. Open to view. (a) Not inclosed: as, a naked fire. (b) Figuratively, not concealed; manifest; plain; evident; undisguised: as, the naked truth. All things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do. Heb. iv. 13. "Robin," said he, "I'll now tell thee The very naked truth." The Kings Disguise (Child's Ballads, V. 380). The system of their [the ancients'] public services, both martial and civil, was arranged on the most naked and manageable principles. De Quincey, Rhetoric. 4. Mere; bare; simple. IMG:content-1195.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1196.png:[blocks in formation] Cowper, Bird's Nest. 7. In music, noting the harmonic interval of a fifth or fourth, when taken alone.-8. In law, unsupported by authority or consideration: as, a naked overdraft; a naked promise. - Naked barley, a variety of Hordeum vulgare, sometimes called H. cœleste, superior for peeled barley, inferior for brewing. Naked beard-gra . See beard -gra . - Naked bedt, a bed in which one lies naked: from the old custom (still common in Ireland and Italy, and nearly universal in China and Japan) of wearing no night-linen in bed. When in my naked bed my limbes were laid. Mir. for Mags., p. 611. And much desire of sleepe with all procured, As straight he gat him to his naked bed . Sir J. Haring ton , tr. of Ariosto, xvii. 75. ( Nares .) Naked bee, any bee of the genus Nomada. - Naked broom-rape, a plant of the genus Aphyllon. See Orobanchaceæ. - Naked bullet. See bullet. - Naked eggs, in entom., eggs which are unprotected and are dropped loosely in the substance which is to furnish food to the larvæ. - Naked flooring, in carp. See flooring. - Naked mollusk, a nudibranch. See Nudibranch i at a. - Naked pupæ, pupæ which are not surrounded by a cocoon.Naked serpents, the cæcilians, a group of worm-like amphibians technically called Gym no phi on a or Ophiomorph a. - Stark naked, entirely naked. Truth... goes (when she goes best) stark naked ; but falshood has ever a cloake for the raine. Dekker, Gull's Horne-Booke, p. 68. The naked eye, the eye una isted by any instrument, such as spectacles, a magnifying-gla , telescope, or scope. Syn. 1. Uncovered, undre ed. - 5. Unprotected, unsheltered, unguarded. naked-eyed (nā'ked-id), a. Having the sense organs uncovered, as a jelly-fish; gym no pht halma to us: the opposite of hidden -eyed: as, the naked - eyed medusans.