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A beacon. [Obs.] Burrill.

Cut less than halfway into portions, usually somewhat rounded; five-lobed; as, a quinquelobate leaf or corolla.

A stout silk having satin stripes, -- used for furniture.

Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; threadbare clothes. "A threadbare cope." Chaucer.

The state of being threadbare.

To lay bare, as the roots of a tree. [Obs.] Bailey.

The act or process of laying bare the roots of trees to expose them to the air and water. [Obs.] Evelyn.

A small lemuroid mammal (Arctocebus Calabarensis) of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail.

An extended upper part, as of a mountain or ridge. [The mountains] their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds. Milton.

Destitute of ornament; unadorned; bare; literal. In the preface to his own bald translation. Dryden.

ight is barred by time; a release bars the plaintiff's recovery; -- sometimes with up. He barely looked the idea in the face, and hastened to bar it in its dungeon. Hawthorne.

o remove. [Obs.] About autumn bate the earth from about the roots of olives, and lay them bare. Holland.

A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith. No man can attain [to] belief by the bare contemplation of heaven and earth. Hooker.

The season when pigeons are said to feed on bents, before peas are ripe. Bare benting times . . . may come. Dryden.

Comeliness. Baret.

A dagger. [Obs.] When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin. Shak.

er or S. sula) related to the common gannet, and found in the West Indies, nesting on the bare rocks. It is so called on account of its apparent stupidity. The name is also sometimes applied to other species of gannets; as, S. piscator, the red-footed booby.

the demurrer. Wirt. To breast up a hedge, to cut the face of it on one side so as to lay bare the principal upright stems of the plants.

fountain, or of the water contained in it; the brink; border. The feet of the priest that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water. Josh. iii. 15.

to cause to stand up, as the bristles of an angry hog; -- sometimes with up. Now for the bare-picked bone of majesty Doth dogged war bristle his angry crest. Shak. Boy, bristle thy courage up. Shak.