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1. | Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; | ||||
2. | With head uncovered; bareheaded. | ||||
3. | Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed. | ||||
4. | Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager. | ||||
5. | Destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished or scantily furnished; - used with of (rarely with in) before the thing wanting or taken away; | ||||
6. | Threadbare; much worn. | ||||
7. | Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else;
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n. | 1. | Surface; body; substance. | |||
2. | (Arch.) That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather. | ||||
v. t. | 1. | To strip off the covering of; to make bare; | |||
v. | 1. | Bore; the old preterit of Bear, |