BARE, BARENESS
ADJECTIVES
1420 — BARE AS ONE’S HAND very bare
1824 — SCABBERT bare, scabbed → Sc.
1898 — BARISH rather bare, scanty → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1911 — BLAIT bare, naked → Sc. (Bk.)
1965 — BARE AS A JAYBIRD completely bare; naked → Amer. dial.
NOUNS
1300 — BARE the bare skin; a naked part of the body → obs.
1683 — BARE a bare space or place → obs.
1774 — BALDNESS bareness, nakedness; meagre simplicity or poverty of style; lack of ornament
VERBS
1240 — NAKEN to lay bare; to strip naked; to divest of clothing → obs.
1320 — NAKE to bare, to make naked, to lay bare, to strip → obs. exc. Sc.
1530 — UNBARE to lay bare, to expose to view
1567 — DEBARE to make quite bare, to strip down → obs.
1587 — UNCASE to lay bare, to uncover, to expose to view or observation
1623 — CONNUDATE to make bare, to strip naked → obs.
1657 — IMBEAR to make or lay bare → obs.
1659 — UNCLOAK to lay bare, to expose, to reveal
1688 — NUDATE to make bare or naked, to strip, to unclothe → obs.
1731 — ABARE to make bare, to uncover, to disclose → obs.
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