bare

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• adjective Lacking the usual or appropriate covering or clothing; naked.
• adjective Exposed to view; undisguised.
• adjective Lacking the usual furnishings, equipment, or decoration.
• adjective Having no addition, adornment, or qualification.
• adjective Just sufficient; mere.
• adjective Obsolete Bareheaded.
• transitive verb To make bare; uncover or reveal.
• transitive verb To expose.

from The Century Dictionary.

• Old preterit of bear.
• To make bare; uncover; divest of covering: as, to bare one's head or one's breast.
• To disclose; make manifest; lay bare: as, to bare the secrets of the grave.
• noun That part of a clapboard, roof-slate, or the like, which is exposed to the weather when the roof is complete, as distinguished from the lap.
• Naked; without covering: as, bare arms; the trees are bare.
• With the head uncovered.
• Open to view; unconcealed; undisguised.
• Lacking in appropriate covering or equipment; unfurnished: as, bare walls.
• Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish.
• Threadless; napless.
• Poor; destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished; unprovided with what is necessary or comfortable: absolutely or with of.
• Empty; valueless; paltry; worthless.
• Mere; scarcely or just sufficient: as, the bare necessaries of life; a bare subsistence.
• Unaccompanied; without addition; simple.
• Unadorned; without literary or artistic effect; bald; meager.
• In beer-making, not completely covered by the bubbles formed in fermentation: said of the surface of beer.
• Raw; excoriated.
• Lean; spare.
• The uncovered or unhidden surface; the body; the substance.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun rare Surface; body; substance.
• noun (Arch.) That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
• transitive verb To strip off the covering of; to make bare.
• Bore; the old preterit of bear, v.
• adjective Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked.
• adjective With head uncovered; bareheaded.
• adjective Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
• adjective Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager.
• adjective Destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished or scantily furnished; -- used with of (rarely with in) before the thing wanting or taken away.
• adjective Threadbare; much worn.
• adjective Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else.
• adjective (Naut.) having no sail set.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb obsolete Simple past of bear.
• verb transitive To uncover; to reveal.
• adjective Minimal; that is or are just sufficient.
• adjective Naked, uncovered.
• adjective Having no supplies.
• adjective Having no decoration.
• adjective Having had what usually covers (something) removed.
• adjective UK, slang, not comparable A lot or lots of.
• adverb UK, slang Very; significantly.
• adverb Barely.