Found 1 hit - Term: under bare poles, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
bare \bare\ b^ar, a. oe. bar, bare, as. baer; akin to d.
g. baar, ohg. par, icel. berr, sw. dan. bar, oslav.
bosu^ barefoot, lith. basas; cf. skr. bh=as to shine.
root85.
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1. without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual
covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.
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2. with head uncovered; bareheaded.
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when once thy foot enters the church, be bare.
--herbert.
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3. without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or
actions; open to view; exposed.
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bare in thy guilt, how foul must thou appear
--milton.
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4. plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager.
"uttering bare truth." --shak.
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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.
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6. threadbare; much worn.
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it appears by their bare liveries that they live by
your bare words. --shak.
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7. mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare
majority. "the bare necessaries of life." --addison.
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nor are men prevailed upon by bare words. --south.
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under bare poles naut., having no sail set.
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