ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Not covered with a coating of some substance.
1663. Boyle, Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos., II. App. 351. Put it into a strong glasse retort uncoated.
1798. Phil. Trans., LXXXVIII. 577. When the flints appeared perfectly uncoated, and in their usual state, I decanted the liquor. Ibid. (1800), XC. 339. A piece of the polished or uncoated red coral was now taken.
1878. Abney, Photogr., 26. If the plate be exposed with the uncoated side next the image.
2. Not wearing a coat.
1853. G. Johnston, Nat. Hist. E. Bord., I. 106. You must add life to the landscape: the uncoated ploughman [etc.].