English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Bare
(a.)
Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering;
naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.
Bare
(a.)
Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or
actions; open to view; exposed.
Bare
(a.)
Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager.
Bare
(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.
Bare
(a.)
Threadbare; much worn.
Bare
(a.)
Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare
majority.
Bare
(n.)
Surface; body; substance.
Bare
(n.)
That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate,
which is exposed to the weather.
Bare
(a.)
To strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the
breast.
Bore; the old preterit of Bear, v.
Bareback
(adv.)
On the bare back of a horse, without using a saddle;
as, to ride bareback.
Barebacked
(a.)
Having the back uncovered; as, a barebacked horse.
Barebone
(n.)
A very lean person; one whose bones show through the
skin.
Bared
(imp. & p. p.)
of Bare
Barefaced
(a.)
With the face uncovered; not masked.
Barefaced
(a.)
Without concealment; undisguised. Hence: Shameless;
audacious.
Barefacedly
(adv.)
Openly; shamelessly.
Barefacedness
(n.)
The quality of being barefaced; shamelessness;
assurance; audaciousness.
Barefoot
(a. & adv.)
With the feet bare; without shoes or stockings.
Barefooted
(a.)
Having the feet bare.