Nail"er*ess, n. A women who makes nailes.
Nail"er*y (?), n.; pl. Naileries (&?;). A manufactory where nails are
made.
Nail"-head`ed (?), a. Having a head like that of a nail; formed so as
to resemble the head of a nail.
Nail-headed characters, arrowheaded or cuneiform characters. See under
Arrowheaded. -- Nail-headed molding (Arch.), an ornament consisting of
a series of low four-sided pyramids resembling the heads of large
nails; -- called also nail-head molding, or nail-head. It is the same
as the simplest form of dogtooth. See Dogtooth.
Nail"less, a. Without nails; having no nails.
Nain`sook" (?), n. [Nainsukh, a valley in Kaghan.] A thick sort of
jaconet muslin, plain or striped, formerly made in India.
||Na"is (?), n. [L., a naiad.] (Zoöl.) See Naiad.
||Nais`sant" (?), a. [F., p. pr. of naître to be born, L. nasci.]
||(Her.) Same as Jessant.
Na"ïve` (?), a. [F. naïf, fem. naïve, fr. L. nativus innate, natural,
native. See Native, and cf. Naïf.] Having native or unaffected
simplicity; ingenuous; artless; frank; as, naïve manners; a naïve
person; naïve and unsophisticated remarks.
Na"ïve`ly (?), adv. In a naïve manner.
||Na`ïve`té" (?), n. [F. See Naïve, and cf. Nativity.] Native
||simplicity; unaffected plainness or ingenuousness; artlessness.
A story which pleases me by its naïveté -- that is, by its
unconscious ingenuousness.
De Quincey.
Na"ïve`ty (?), n. Naïveté. Carlyle.
Nake (?), v. t. To make naked. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Come, be ready, nake your swords.
Old Play.
Na"ked (?), a. [AS. nacod; akin to D. naakt, G. nackt, OHG. nacchot,
nahhot, Icel. nökviðr, nakinn, Sw. naken, Dan. nögen, Goth. naqaþs,
Lith. ngas, Russ. nagii, L. nudus, Skr. nagna. √266. Cf. Nude.]
1. Having no clothes on; uncovered; nude; bare; as, a naked body; a
naked limb; a naked sword.
2. Having no means of defense or protection; open; unarmed;
defenseless.
Thy power is full naked.
Chaucer.
Behold my bosom naked to your swords.
Addison.
3. Unprovided with needful or desirable accessories, means of
sustenance, etc.; destitute; unaided; bare.
Patriots who had exposed themselves for the public, and whom they
say now left naked.
Milton.
4. Without addition, exaggeration, or excuses; not concealed or
disguised; open to view; manifest; plain.
The truth appears so naked on my side, That any purblind eye may
find it out.
Shak.
All things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we
to do.
Heb. iv. 13.