1. (a.) Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.

2. (a.) With head uncovered; bareheaded.

3. (a.) Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.

4. (a.) Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager.

5. (a.) 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.

6. (a.) Threadbare; much worn.

7. (a.) Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare majority.

8. (n.) Surface; body; substance.

9. (n.) That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.

10. (v.) To strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the breast.

11. (p. p.) Bore; the old preterit of Bear, v.

12. (p. p.) of Bear