Bare 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.”
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.”
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.”
Nor are men prevailed upon by bare words. --South.
Under bare poles Naut., having no sail set.