What does "bare" mean?

Additional senses

1. 2.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.
2. 3.Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager. "Uttering bare truth." Shak.
3. 4.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.
4. 5.Threadbare; much worn. It appears by their bare liveries that they live by your bare words. Shak.
5. 6.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.
6. 7.Surface; body; substance. [R.] You have touched the very bare of naked truth. Marston.
7. 8.(Arch.) That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
8. 9.To strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the breast.
9. 10.Bore; the old preterit of Bear, v.