Entry 11 senses · 4 variants Webster, 1913

Bare

/(bâr)/ · IPA /bɛɚ/

01 a. Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.

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.
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.” — Shak.
7.
Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare majority.
“Nor are men prevailed upon by bare words.” — South.

Phrases & compounds

Under bare poles — having no sail set.

02 n. Surface; body; substance.

1.
Surface; body; substance.[R.]
“You have touched the very bare of naked truth.” — Marston.
2.
That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.(Arch.)

03 v. t. To strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the breast.

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

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

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

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