Bare
Bare (bâr) , adjective
[Old English bar, bare, Anglo-Saxon bar; akin to Dutch & German baar, Old High German par, Icelandic berr, Swedish & Danish bar, Oslav. bosu barefoot, Lithuanian basas; compare Sanskrit bhās to shine. r85.]
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.
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!
4.
Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager.
Uttering bare truth.
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.
6.
Threadbare; much worn.
It appears by their bare liveries that they live by your bare words.
7.
Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare majority.
The bare necessaries of life.
Nor are men prevailed upon by bare words.
Collocations (1)
Under bare poles (Nautical) , having no sail set.
Bare , noun
1.
Surface; body; substance. [Rare]
You have touched the very bare of naked truth.
2.
(Architecture) That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
Bare , transitive verb
[Anglo-Saxon barian. See Bare, a.]
To strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the breast.
Bare , verb
Bore; the old preterit of Bear, v.