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.