資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Bare \Bare\, a. [OE. bar, bare, AS. b[ae]r; akin to D. & G.
   baar, OHG. par, Icel. berr, Sw. & Dan. bar, OSlav. bos?
   barefoot, Lith. basas; cf. Skr. bh[=a]s to shine ?.]
   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.