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.