Bare /(bâr)/

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.
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.
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.

   Nor are men prevailed upon by bare words.

1. Surface; body; substance. [R.]

   You have touched the very bare of naked truth.

2. That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather. (Arch.)

imp. & p. p. Bared; p. pr. & vb. n. Baring

1. To strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the breast.

1. Bore; the old preterit of Bear, v.