Bardes a nite (bardes an it)

[ He [Mani] looked upon what he considered to be Christianity proper, that is, Christianity as it had been developed among the sects of the Basilidians, Mar cio nites, and perhaps Bardes a nites , as a comparatively valuable and sound religion. Encyc . Brit ., XV. 485. bardic (bär'dik), a . [ bard1 + -ic .] Of, pertaining to, or of the character of a bard or bards. IMG:content-1666.png:[blocks in formation] 10. Unaccompanied; without addition; simple. Shak., Cor., v. 1. 11. Unadorned; without literary or artistic effect; bald; meager. It was a bare petition of a state. Much has yet to be done to make even the bare annals of the time coherent. Athenæum, No. 3067, p. 170. 12. In beer - making, not completely covered by the bubbles formed in fermentation: said of the surface of beer. -13t. Raw; excoriated. How many flyes in whottest sommers day Do seize upon some beast, whose flesh is bare . Spenser, F. Q., VI. xi. 48. 14. Lean; spare. bare Fal . For their barene , I am sure they never learned that of me. Prince.... Unle you call three fingers on the ribs bare . Shak., 1 Hen. IV., iv. 2. Bare contract, in law, an unconditional promise or surrender.- Bare windt, naut., a wind that is scant, or too much ahead to fill the sails. The bare. (a) In art, the nude. [Rare.] (bt) The uncovered or unhidden surface; the body; the substance. [Rare.] You have touched the very bare of truth. Marston. To lay bare, to uncover; expose to view or to knowledge, as something hidden or a secret of any kind.Under bare poles ( naut . ), said of a ship with no sail set, in a gale of wind. Syn. See mere.