Bare (bâr), a. [OE. bar, bare, AS. bær; akin to D. & G. baar, OHG. par, Icel. berr, Sw. & Dan. bar, OSlav. bosŭ barefoot, Lith. basas; cf. Skr. bhās to shine. √85.]
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 words.
South.
Under bare poles(Naut.), having no sail set.