naked

Bare, not covered by clothing.

He was as naked as the day he was born.

Christ commeth not bare or naked, but clothed and accompanied with all his mercies.

Lacking some clothing; clothed only in underwear.

For no body would staye to give them intelligence, the countrey people running evry wher out of ther waye, and some of them flying out of ther bedds nacked in their shirts, who runne to the neerest rockes on the sea syde; so formidable was ther very name.

Unadorned, without decoration or circumlocution; put bluntly.

This is the naked truth.

The naked facts lay there on the table, enclosed within the files.

Involving naked people.

So here I went the first time into a naked bed, only my drawers on; and did sleep pretty well: but still both sleeping and waking had a fear of fire in my heart, that I took little rest.

The satirical historian has not blushed to describe the naked scenes which Theodora was not ashamed to exhibit in the theatre.

Unarmed.

You an’t even with me yet, ſays ſhe; I ſcorn as much to take up a Sword againſt a Naked Man; as you ought to have ſcorn’d, if you had been a Gentleman, to give the Lie to a Woman.