Bare \Bare\ (b[^a]r), a. [OE. bar, bare, AS. b[ae]r; akin to D.
   & G. baar, OHG. par, Icel. berr, Sw. & Dan. bar, Oslav.
   bos[u^] barefoot, Lith. basas; cf. Skr. bh[=a]s to shine.
   [root]85.]
   
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   1. Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual
      covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.
      
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   2. With head uncovered; bareheaded.
      
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            When once thy foot enters the church, be bare.
                                                  --Herbert.
      
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   3. Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or
      actions; open to view; exposed.
      
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            Bare in thy guilt, how foul must thou appear !
                                                  --Milton.
      
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   4. Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager.
      "Uttering bare truth." --Shak.
      
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   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.
      
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   6. Threadbare; much worn.
      
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            It appears by their bare liveries that they live by
            your bare words.                      --Shak.
      
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   7. Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare
      majority. "The bare necessaries of life." --Addison.
      
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            Nor are men prevailed upon by bare words. --South.
      
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   {Under bare poles} (Naut.), having no sail set.
      
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