Bare (?), a. [OE. bar, bare, AS. baer; akin to D. & G. baar, OHG. par, Icel. berr, Sw. & Dan. bar, OSlav. bos barefoot, Lith. basas; cf. Skr. bhas to shine .]
1.
Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.
2.
With head uncovered; bareheaded.
When once thy foot enters the church, be bare.
Herbert.
3.
Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
Bare in thy guilt, how foul must thou appear !
Milton.
4.
Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager.
"Uttering
bare truth."
Shak.
5.
Destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished or scantily furnished; -- used with of (rarely with in) before the thing wanting or taken away; as, a room bare of furniture.
"A
bare treasury."
Dryden.
6.
Threadbare; much worn.
It appears by their bare liveries that they live by your bare words.
Shak.
7.
Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare majority.
"The
bare necessaries of life."
Addison.
Nor are men prevailed upon by bare of naked truth.
South.
Under bare poles Naut., having no sail set.
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Bare, n.
1.
Surface; body; substance.
[R.]
You have touched the very bare of naked truth.
Marston.
2. Arch.
That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
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Bare, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bared(); p. pr. & vb. n. Baring.] [AS. barian. See Bare, a.]
To strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the breast.
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Bare.
Bore; the old preterit of Bear, v.
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