nudirostrate (nudirostrat)

[L. nudus, naked, + rostrum, beak: see rostrate.] Having the rostrum naked, as a hemipterous insect. nudiscutate (nu-di-skūtāt), a. [L. nudus, naked, + scutum, a shield: see scutate.] Having the scutellum naked, as a hemipterous in sect. nudity (nu'di-ti), n.; pl. nudities (-tiz). [F. nudité = Pr. nudetat = Pg. nuidade = It. nudità, Many souls in their young nudity are tumbled out among incongruities, and left to "find their feet" among them, while their elders go about their busine . George Eliot, Middle march, I. 213. It may appear that I insist too much upon the nudity of the Provençal horizon. But it is an exquisite barene ; it seems to exist for the purpose of allowing one to follow the delicate lines of the hills, and touch with the eyes, as it were, the smallest inflections of the landscape, H. James, Jr., Little Tour, p. 189. 2. In a concrete sense, a nude or naked thing; also, a representation of a nude figure; any thing freely exposed or laid bare. Sometimes they took Men with their heels upward, and hurry'd them about in such an undecent manner as to expose their Nudities . Maundrell , Aleppo to Jerusalem, p. 95. The world 's all face; the man who shows his heart Is hooted for his nudities , and scorn'd. Young, Night Thoughts, viii. He [Harry Tidbody] had piles upon piles of gray paper at his lodgings, covered with worthle nudities in black and white chalk. Thackeray , On Men and Pictures. nudum pactum (nu'dum pak'tum). [L.: nudum, neut. of nudus, bare, naked; pactum, a covenant, a contract: see pact.] See nude pact, under nude. nué (nü-a'), a. [F., pp. of nuer, shade: see nu ance.] In her., same as inveckee.