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Pronunciation : Bare
Part of Speech : a.
Etymology : [OE. bar, bare, AS. b?r; akin to D. & G. baar, OHG. par, Icel. berr, Sw. & Dan. bar, OSlav. bos barefoot, Lith. basas; cf. Skr. bhas to shine
Definition : 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. "Uttering bare truth." Shak.

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.

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. "The bare necessaries of life." Addison. Nor are men prevailed upon by bare of naked truth. South. Under bare poles (Naut.), having no sail set.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Bare
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : 1. Surface; body; substance. [R.] You have touched the very bare of naked truth. Marston.

2. (Arch.)

Defn: That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Bare
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [AS. barian. See Bare, a.]
Definition : Defn: To strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the breast.

t. [imp. & p. p. Bared(p. pr. & vb. n. Baring.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Bare.
Definition : Defn: Bore; the old preterit of Bear, v.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913