Bare

Bare - Other Definitions

• (a.) Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.
  
  
• (a.) With head uncovered; bareheaded.
  
  
• (a.) Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
  
  
• (a.) Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager.
  
  
• (a.) 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.) Threadbare; much worn.
  
  
• (a.) Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare majority.
  
  
• (n.) Surface; body; substance.
  
  
• (n.) That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
  
  
• (a.) To strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the breast.
  
  
• () Bore; the old preterit of Bear, v.
  
  
• () of Bear
  
  
• (adv.) Without covering; nakedly.
  
  
• (adv.) Without concealment or disguise.
  
  
• (adv.) Merely; only.
  
  
• (adv.) But just; without any excess; with nothing to spare ( of quantity, time, etc.); hence, scarcely; hardly; as, there was barely enough for all; he barely escaped.