- Bare
- Bare Bare (b[^a]r), a. [OE. bar, bare, AS. b[ae]r; akin to D.
& G. baar, OHG. par, Icel. berr, Sw. & Dan. bar, Oslav.
bos[u^] barefoot, Lith. basas; cf. Skr. bh[=a]s to shine.
[root]85.]
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1. Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual
covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.
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2. With head uncovered; bareheaded. [1913 Webster]
When once thy foot enters the church, be bare. --Herbert. [1913 Webster]
3. Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed. [1913 Webster]
Bare in thy guilt, how foul must thou appear ! --Milton. [1913 Webster]
4. Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager. ``Uttering bare truth.'' --Shak. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
6. Threadbare; much worn. [1913 Webster]
It appears by their bare liveries that they live by your bare words. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
7. Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare majority. ``The bare necessaries of life.'' --Addison. [1913 Webster]
Nor are men prevailed upon by bare words. --South. [1913 Webster]
{Under bare poles} (Naut.), having no sail set. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
