• 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