Bare

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adj Threadbare; much worn.

II. Bare ·noun Surface; body; substance.

III. Bare ·- of Bear.

IV. Bare ·adj With head uncovered; bareheaded.

V. Bare ·- Bore; the old preterit of Bear, v.

VI. Bare ·adj Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager.

VII. Bare ·adj Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare majority.

VIII. Bare ·adj To strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the breast.

IX. Bare ·adj Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.

X. Bare ·noun That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.

XI. Bare ·adj Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.

XII. Bare ·adj 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.

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