(a) Not covered with clothing, unclothed; naked, nude, bare; naked and ~; on ~ fot(en, barefoot; (b) scantily clad, ill-clad; in his ~ sherte; (c) bare-headed; (b) bare-footed, unshod.

(a) Not protected by armor; unarmed; with ~ handes; (b) unsheathed.

(a) Not covered with tissue or flesh, bare; as ~ as ani bon; (b) devoid or bare of hair; depilated, hairless, bald; ~ of her; also, devoid of feathers.

(a) Not covered over or up; (b) of a horse's hoof: unshod; of a cart or wheel: without iron trimming.

Not covered with leaves; bare of leaves, leafless; ~ of bark, stripped of bark.

(a) Of land: not covered by trees, buildings, etc.; ~ feld, open field; of ground, soil: without vegetation; (b) of ground: not covered (as with a carpet or blanket).

Laid waste, ravaged, despoiled; desolate.

Stripped of defenders or means of defence; unprotected, defenceless.

(a) Unadorned, unornamented; (b) simple, plain, crude.

Deprived or bereft (of worldly possessions), destitute, poor.

Devoid (of sth.), lacking (in sth.).

(a) Empty of contents, vacant; (b) empty or devoid (of people), deserted.

Deficient, impotent, unavailing, vain; poor (bargain); sterile (person); scanty (beard).

Miscellaneous senses: (a) exposed to view, unconcealed; (b) manifest, clear (miracle, remission); (c) smooth; (d) ?single (combat); ?downright.

(a) As an intensive: to the bare bon; to the ~ deth, to the very death, to death itself; bi here ~ live, on pain of death; til the ~ night, till utter darkness; al the ~ night, all night long; the ~ unwiht (qued), the very Devil, the Devil himself; bales ful bare, extreme torture; (b) with depreciative or restrictive force: bare ashes (fees), nothing but ashes (fees); ~ two, only two; two ~ tide, only two days; thre ~ motes, only three notes; a ~ strau, a mere straw; ~ wordes, mere words; mid one ~ worde, with a single word; for one ~ sinne, for a single offence; thourgh ~ repentaunce, merely through repentance; for a ~ aunter, by mere chance.