ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]

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  1.  Not covered with a coating of some substance.

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1663.  Boyle, Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos., II. App. 351. Put it into a strong glasse retort uncoated.

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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.

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1878.  Abney, Photogr., 26. If the plate be exposed … with the uncoated side next the image.

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  2.  Not wearing a coat.

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1853.  G. Johnston, Nat. Hist. E. Bord., I. 106. You must add life to the landscape:… the uncoated ploughman [etc.].

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