Bare

Part of speech: noun (n.)

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.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

Bore; the old preterit of Bear, v.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

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

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

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.