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.
adv.
On the bare back of a horse, without using a saddle; as, to ride bareback.
a.
Having the back uncovered; as, a barebacked horse.
n.
A very lean person; one whose bones show through the skin.
a.
With the face uncovered; not masked.
a.
Without concealment; undisguised. Hence: Shameless; audacious.
adv.
Openly; shamelessly.
n.
The quality of being barefaced; shamelessness; assurance; audaciousness.
a. & adv.
With the feet bare; without shoes or stockings.
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