ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Not covered with clothes; bare, naked.
1440. J. Shirley, Dethe K. James (1818), 15. The Kyng … stondyng in his night gowne, all unclothid save his shirt, his cape [etc.].
1495. Trevisa’s Barth. De P. R., XVIII. ix. 762. A serpent dredyth a nakyd man & dare not touche hym though he lepe on hym whan he is vnclothed.
1601. Ld. Mountjoy Lett., in Moryson, Itin. II. (1617), 204. Then will the souldier be vnclothed, which rather then he will indure, he will runne away.
1616. Surfl. & Markh., Country Farme, I. xxviii. 128. Vpon his necke, and other outward parts which are vnclothed.
1816. Byron, Siege Cor., xxvi. Their leader’s nervous arm is bare,… Unclothed to the shoulder it waves them on.
1863. Sharpe, Egypt. Antiq. Brit. Mus., 13. The unclothed parts of their bodies are painted red.
1874. Lisle Carr, Jud. Gwynne, I. vii. 237. Prone to cravings after a savage ideal of untaught, unclothed freedom.
transf. 1581. Howell, Devises (1906), 32. I sawe the naked Fields vnclothde on euery side.
1855. Orr’s Circ. Sci., Inorg. Nat., 85. The unclothed jaws—covered with hard enamel instead of skin—are lined with a double row of teeth.
2. Not covered with a cloth or cloths.
1856. Kane, Arct. Expl., II. ix. 93. [The table] still stands in its simple dignity, an unclothed platform of boards.
1891. E. Kinglake, Australian at Home, 94. A plainly furnished room with an unclothed deal table.
Hence Unclothedly adv.
a. 1648. Ess. on Death, in Bacon’s Remaines (1648), 8. Forgetting how unclothedly they came hither, or with what naked ornaments they were arrayed.
1683. E. Hooker, Pref. Pordage’s Mystic Div., 67. Where, unclothedly, uncoveredly, nakedly, uncompoundedly,… Hee stood.
