naiivet6 
naivet6 (na-ev-ta'), n. [F., < LL. nativito(t-)s, 
nativeness: see nativity, naif, noire.] Native 
simplicity; a natural unreserved expression of 
sentiments and thoughts without regard to con- 
ventional rules, and without weighing the con- 
struction which may be put upon the language 
or conduct. 
Mrs. M'Catchley was amused and pleased with his fresh- 
ness and na'ivett, so unlike anything she had ever heard 
or seen. liulwer, My Novel, v. 8. 
naivety (na-ev'ti), n. [< naive + -ty.~\ Same 
as naivete. 
Naja (na'ja), . [NL., also Naia, Naga, < Hind. 
nag, a snake.] A genus of very venomous ser- 
pents, of the family Elapidce or made the type 
of a family Najidce, having the skin of the neck 
distensible into a kind of hood, the anal scute 
entire, the urosteges two-rowed, and no post- 
parietal plates; the cobras. The common cobra of 
India is N. tripudians; the asp of Africa is N. haje. See 
cute under asp2 and cobra-de-capello. 
Najidae (naj'i-de), n.pl. [NL., < Naja + -idee.] 
A family of very venomous serpents, of the order 
Ophidia, typified by the genus Naja; the cobras. 
naket (nak), v. t. [ME. naken, < AS. nation, 
also be-nacian (rare), make naked : see naked.] 
To make naked. [Rare.] 
O nyce men, why mice ye yowre backes? 
Chaucer, Boethius, iv. meter 7. 
Come, be ready, nake your swords, 
Think of your wrongs ! 
Toumeur, Revenger's Tragedy, v. 
naked (na'ked), a. [< ME. naked, < AS. nacod, 
naced, naked (> nwced, nakedness), = OFries. 
nakad, naked = D. naakt = MLG. naket, nakent, 
nakendich = LG. naked, nakd = OHG. nacchut, 
naKhut, nachot, MHG. nacket, nackent, G. nackt, 
nackend (dial, also nackig, nachtig) = Icel. nok- 
vidhr, later naktr = Goth, nakwaths = Ir. nochd 
= W. noeth = L. nudus (for *novdus, "noavidus ?) 
(> It. Sp. Pg. nudo = F.nu = E. nude), also with 
diff. term. OFries. naken = Icel. nakinn = Sw. 
naken = Dan. ni>gen = Skt. nagna, naked; these 
being appar. orig. pp. forms in -erf 2 and -en 1 re- 
spectively; but no verb appears in the earliest 
records (the verb nake being a back formation, 
of laterorigin); also, akintoOBulg. nagu= Serv. 
nag = Bohem. nahy = Pol. nagi = Russ. nagot = 
Lith. nogas = Lett. noks, 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 trans- 
lations in the sense of scantily clad that is, having no- 
thing on but a short tunic or shirt-like undergarment, with- 
out the long sheet-like mantle or outer garment. 
There we wesshe vs and bayned vs all nakyd in the wa- 
ter of Jordan, trustynge to be therby wesshen and made 
dene from all our synnes. 
Sir R. Guyl/orde, 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. 
The Ban and the kynge Bohors com on with swerdes 
naked in her handes, all blody, and chaced and slough all 
that thei myght a-reche before hem. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 409. 
In his hand 
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 tot., noting flowers without a calyx, 
ovules or seeds not in a closed ovary (gymnosperms), stems 
without leaves, and parts destitute of hairs. (6) In zoiil., 
noting mollusks when the body is not defended by a calca- 
reous 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. 
Not that God doth require nothing unto happiness at the 
hands of men save only a naked belief. 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity. 
Most famous States, though now they retaine little more 
then a naked name. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, I. 242. 
Much more, if first I floated free, 
As naked essence must I be 
Incompetent of memory. 
Tennyson, The Two Voices. 
5. Having no means of defense or protection 
against an enemy's attack, or against other in- 
jury; unarmed; exposed; defenseless. 
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Thou hast no weapon, and perforce must suffer. 
Look in upon me then, and speak with me, 
Or, naked as I am, I will assault thee. 
Shak., Othello, v. 2. 258. 
Man were ignoble, when thus arm'd, to show 
Unequal Force against a naked Foe. 
Congrene, tr. of Ovid's Art of Love. 
6. Bare; unprovided; unfurnished; destitute. 
I am a poor man, naked, 
Yet something for remembrance ; four a-piece, gentlemen. 
Fletcher, Humorous Lieutenant, iii. 5. 
What strength can he to your designs oppose, 
Naked of friends, and round beset with foes? 
Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, i. 280. 
Sea-beaten rocks and naked shores 
Could yield them no retreat. 
Cowper, Bird's Neat. 
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 Hordeumvulgare, sometimes called U. 
caeleste, superior for peeled barley, inferior for brewing. 
Naked beard-grass. See beard-grass. 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 withall procured, 
As straight he gat him to his naked bed. 
Sir J. Harington, tr. of Ariosto, xvii. 75. (Nares.) 
Naked bee, any bee of the genus Nomada. Naked 
broom-rape, a plant of the genus AphyUon. See Oro- 
banchaceai. 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 
larvse. Naked flooring, in carp. See flooring. Naked 
mollusk, a nudibranch. See Ntidibranchiata. Naked 
pupss, pupse which are not surrounded by a cocoon. 
Naked serpents, the csecilians, a group of worm-like am- 
phibians technically called Gymnophiona or Ophiomorpha. 
Stork naked, entirely naked. 
Truth . . . goes (when she goes best) stark naked; but 
falshood has ever a cloake for the mine. 
Dekker, Gull's Horne-Booke, p. 68. 
scope 
unsheltered, unguarded. 
naked-eyed (na'ked-id), a. Having the sense- 
organs uncovered, as a jelly-fish ; gymnophthal- 
matous: the opposite of hidden-eyed: as, the 
naked-eyed medusans. 
naked-lady (na'ked-la'di), n. The meadow- 
saffron, Colcliicum autnmnale : from the fact 
that the flower appears without any leaf. 
nakedly (na'ked-li), adv. [< ME. nakedlicne; 
< naked + -ly 2 .] In a naked manner; barely; 
without covering; absolutely; exposedly. 
You see the loue I beare you doth cause me thus nakedly 
to forget myselfe. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, I. 210. 
How have you borne yourself ! how nakedly 
Laid your soul open, and your ignorance, 
To be a sport to all ! Fletcher, Mad Lover, 1. 1. 
nakedness (na'ked-nes), n. [< ME. nakednesse, 
< AS. ncecednes, < nacod, naced, naiced, naked: 
see naked and -ness.] The state or condition of 
being naked; nudity; bareness; defenseless- 
ness; undisguisedness. 
nakedwood (na'ked-wud), . One of two trees, 
Colubrina reclinata and Eugenia dichotoma, 
which occur from the West Indies to Florida. 
nakent (na'ken), v. t. [< nake + -en 1 .] To make 
naked. 
nakerH (na'ker), n. [< ME. naker, < OF. nacre, 
nacar, nacaire, nakaire, naquaire, etc., = Pr. ne- 
cari = It. naccaro, nacchera, < ML. nacara, < Ar. 
nakir, nakiir (> Pers. nakdra), a kettledrum, < 
nakir, hollowed out: see nacre.] A kind of 
drum ; a kettledrum. 
Pypes, trompes, nakeres, clariounes. 
Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 1653. 
A flourish of Norman trumpets . . . mingled with the 
deep and hollow clang of the nakers. Scott, Ivanhoe, xxii. 
naker 2 t, " An obsolete form of nacre. 
nakerint, a. [ME., < naker 1 + -in 1 .] Of or 
pertaining to nakers or kettledrums. 
Ay the nakeryn noyse, notes of pipes. 
Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 1413. 
nakeryt (na'ker-i), . Same as naker 1 . 
nakket, A Middle English form of neck. 
nalet, [In the phrase at the nale, atte nale, 
properly at then ale, at the ale-house: see ale.] 
An ale-house. See ale, 4. 
Make him grete feestes atie nale. 
Chaucer, Friar's Tale, 1. 49. 
nallt (nal), n. See nawl. 
namif. Preterit of mm 1 . 
nam 2 t, n. [ME., also name, < AS. ndm, naam 
(> ML. namium), a seizure, distraint (= Icel. 
warn = OHG. ndma, a taking, seizure, apprehen- 
name 
sion, leaving), < niman (pret. nam), take: see 
nim 1 .] In old law, distraint ; distress. 
The practice of Distress of taking nams, a word pre- 
served in the once famous law term withernam is attest- 
ed by records considerably older than the Conquest. 
Maine, Early Hist, of Institutions, p. 262. 
To take nams, to make a levy on another's movable goods ; 
distrain. 
In the ordinance of Canute that no man is to take nams 
unless he has demanded right three times in the hundred. 
Maine, Early Hist, of Institutions, p. 270. 
nam 3 t. A Middle English contraction of ne am, 
am not. Chaucer. 
namable, nameable (na'ma-bl), a. [< name 1 
+ -able.] Capable of being named. 
namation (na-ma'shon), n. [< ML. namare, dis- 
train,< namium, seizure, distraint: see am 2 .] 
In law, the act of distraining or taking a dis- 
tress. 
namby-pamby (nam'bi-pam'bi), . and a. [A 
varied dim. reduplication of Ambrose, in allusion 
to Ambrose Philips (died 1749), a sentimental 
poet whose style was ridiculed by Carey and 
Pope: see quotations.] I. n. Silly verse; weak- 
ly sentimental writing or talk. 
Namby-Pamby, or a Panegyric on the New Versification. 
Carey, Poems on Several Occasions (1729), p. 55. 
And Namby-Pamby be preferred for wit. 
Pope, Dunciad, iii. 322. 
[This line appears in various editions belonging to 1729. In 
later editions it reads : " Lo ! Ambrose Philips is preferr'd 
for wit."] 
Anotherof Addison'sfavourite companions was Ambrose 
Philips, a good Whig and a middling poet, who had the 
honour of bringing into fashion a species of composition 
which has been called, after his name, Namby Pamby. 
Macaulay, Addison. 
II. a. Weakly sentimental ; affectedly nice ; 
insipid; vapid: as, namby-pamby rimes. 
namby-pamby (nam'bi-pam'bi), v. t. [< nam- 
by-pamby, n.] To treat sentimentally ; coddle. 
A lady of quality . . . sends me Irish cheese and Iceland 
moss for my breakfast, and her waiting gentlewoman to 
namby-pamby me. Miss Edgeworth, Absentee, xvL 
name 1 (nam), . [< ME. name, nome,<. AS. nama, 
noma = OS. namo = OFries. nema, nama, noma 
= MD. naem, D. naam = MLG. name, LG. name 
= OHG. namo, MHG. name, nam, G. name, na- 
men = Icel. nafn (for *namn) = Sw. namn = Dan. 
navn = Goth, namo = L. nomen, for "gnomen 
(as in agnomen, cognomen) (> It. Pg. name = Sp. 
noinbre = Y. nom, OF. non, mm, noun, > E. noun), 
= Gr. Imofia, liw/ia, ovvofta (bvofiar-) (for "ofvofia, 
*byvt>iiav- f ) = Skt. naman (for *jndman ?) = Pers. 
ndm (> Hind, ndm), name; appar. lit. 'that by 
which a thing is known,' from the root *gno, 
Teut. *kna, Gr. yiyvuGKeiv, L. noscerc, "gnoscere 
= AS. cndwan, E. knoiv (see know 1 ), but this 
view ignores phonetic difficulties in the rela- 
tions of the above forms, and fails to explain 
the appar. cognate Ir. ainm, W. enw, and 
OBulg. ime" = Serv. ime = Bohem. jme, jmeno 
= Pol. imie = Russ. imya = OPruss.ewne,name. 
It seems probable that all the words cited are 
actually related, and that the appar. irregulari- 
ties are due to interference or conformation. 
From the L. form are ult. E. nominal, nominate, 
etc., cognomen, etc., noun, pronoun, renown, etc., 
with the technical norne^, nomen, agnomen, no- 
mial, binomial, etc.; from the Gr. are ult. E. syno- 
nym, paronym, patronymic, metronymic, etc., 
onym, mononym, polyonymous, etc. From the E. 
noun are name, v., neven.] 1. A word by which 
a person or thing is denoted ; the word or words 
by which an individual person or thing, or a 
class of persons or things, is designated, and 
distinguished from others; appellation; de- 
nomination ; designation. In most communities of 
European civilization at the present day the name a per- 
son bears is double consisting of the family name or sur- 
name and the Christian or distinctively personal name, 
which latter ordinarily precedes the surname, but in some 
countries stands last. Either of these name-elements may 
and (the personal name especially) often does consist of 
two or more names as component parts. An ancient Ro- 
man of historical times had necessarily two names, one 
distinguishing his family or gens, the nomen, or noinen gen- 
titiciitm, and the other, the prenomen, distinguishing the 
individual : as, Cams Marine that is, Caius of the gens of 
the Marii. Every Roman citizen belonged also to a faniilin, 
a branch or subdivision of his gens, and hence had or might 
have a third name, or cognomen, referring to the familia. 
This cognomen was always borne by men of patrician es- 
tate ; and in the case of men of distinction a fourth name or 
epithet (cognomen secundum, or agnomen) was sometimes 
added, in reference to some notable achievement of the 
individual : thus, Lucius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus was 
Lucius, of the Scipio branch of the Cornelian gens, who 
had won personal distinction in Asia. Women as a rule 
bore only the feminine form of the nomen of their gens: as, 
Cornelia, Tvllia. But sometimes, especially at a compara- 
tively late date, they received also an individual preno- 
men, which was the feminine form of the preuomen of 
