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(br), a.[OE. bar, bare, AS. br; akin to D. & G. baar, OHG. par, Icel. berr, Sw. & Dan. bar, OSlav. bos barefoot, Lith. basas; cf. Skr. bhs 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." Addis Bare n. 1. Surface; body; substance. [R.] You have touched the very bare of naked truth. Marston. 2. (Arch.) That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather. Bare v. t.[imp. & p. p.Bared(brd); p. pr. & vb. n.Baring.] [AS. barian. See Bare, a.] To strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the breast. Bare Bore; the old preterit of Bear, v. スポンサード リンク
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