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BARING
denudation, stripping, uncovering, baring, husking
(noun) the removal of covering
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Proper noun
Baring
A surname.
A city in Missouri.
Anagrams
• Gibran, arbing
Verb
baring
present participle of bare
Noun
baring (plural barings)
The act by which something is laid bare.
Anagrams
• Gibran, arbing
Source: Wiktionary
BARE
Bare, a. Etym: [OE. bar, bare, AS. bær; akin to D. & G. baar, OHG. par, Icel. berr, Sw. & Dan. bar, OSlav. bos barefoot, Lith. basas; cf. Skr. bhas to shine
1. Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.
2. With head uncovered; bareheaded. When once thy foot enters the church, be bare. Herbert.
3. 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.
4. Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager. "Uttering bare truth." Shak.
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.
6. Threadbare; much worn. It appears by their bare liveries that they live by your bare words. Shak.
7. 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.
Bare, n.
1. Surface; body; substance. [R.] You have touched the very bare of naked truth. Marston.
2. (Arch.)
Definition: That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
Bare, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bared(p. pr. & vb. n. Baring.] Etym: [AS. barian. See Bare, a.]
Definition: To strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the breast.
Bare.
Definition: Bore; the old preterit of Bear, v.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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