Nake

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Nake \Nake\ (n[=a]k), v. t.
     To make naked. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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           Come, be ready, nake your swords.        --Old Play.
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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  NAKED. This word is used in a metaphorical sense to denote that a thing is 
  not complete, and for want of some quality it is either without power, or it 
  possesses a limited power. A naked contract, is one made without 
  consideration, and, for that reason, it is void; a naked authority, is one 
  given without any right in the agent, and wholly for the benefit of the 
  principal. 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1302. See Nudum Pactum.