Old preterit of bear.
To make bare; uncover; divest of covering: as, to bare one's head or one's breast.
To disclose; make manifest; lay bare: as, to bare the secrets of the grave.
noun.
That part of a clapboard, roof-slate, or the like, which is exposed to the weather when the roof is complete, as distinguished from the lap.
Naked; without covering: as, bare arms; the trees are bare.
With the head uncovered.
Open to view; unconcealed; undisguised.
Lacking in appropriate covering or equipment; unfurnished: as, bare walls.
Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish.
Threadless; napless.
Poor; destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished; unprovided with what is necessary or comfortable: absolutely or with of.
Empty; valueless; paltry; worthless.
Mere; scarcely or just sufficient: as, the bare necessaries of life; a bare subsistence.
Unaccompanied; without addition; simple.
Unadorned; without literary or artistic effect; bald; meager.
In beer-making, not completely covered by the bubbles formed in fermentation: said of the surface of beer.
Raw; excoriated.
Lean; spare.
The uncovered or unhidden surface; the body; the substance.