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naked 1. (of the seeds of gymnosperms) not enclosed in a pericarp 2. (of flowers) lacking a perianth 3. (of stems) lacking leaves and other appendages 4. (of animals) lacking hair, feathers, scales, etc. 5. Law a. unsupported by authority or financial or other consideration b. lacking some essential condition to render valid; incomplete How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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As he followed rapidly downward toward the dead sea-bottom, where he knew he must lose the spoor in the resilient ochre vegetation, he was suddenly surprised to see a naked man approaching him from the north-east. Directly in front of him, holding on by a low branch, stood a naked brown baby who could just walk--as soft and as dimpled a little atom as ever came to a wolf's cave at night. I thought it was Shea returning to speak with me on some matter of tomorrow's work; but when I raised my eyes to the doorway that connects the two rooms I saw framed there the figure of a bronzed giant, his otherwise naked body trapped with a jewel-encrusted harness from which there hung at one side an ornate short-sword and at the other a pistol of strange pattern. |
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