bare

bare is an Adverb

Definition:

[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." Shak.

[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." Dryden.

[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." Addison. Nor are men prevailed upon by bare of naked truth. South. Under bare poles (Naut.), having no sail set.