without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.-with head uncovered; bareheaded.-without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.-plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager.-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.-threadbare; much worn.-mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare majority.-surface; body; substance.-that part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.-to strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the breast.-bore; the old preterit of bear, v.-of bear