BARE

Definitions

1. 1. Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.
2. 2. With head uncovered; bareheaded. When once thy foot enters the church, be bare. Herbert.
3. 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. 4. Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager. "Uttering bare truth." Shak.
5. 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. 6. Threadbare; much worn. It appears by their bare liveries that they live by your bare words. Shak.
7. 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.