BALD

a.

7 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Destitute of the natural or common covering on the head or top, as of hair, feathers, foliage, trees, etc.; as, a bald head; a bald oak. On the bald top of an eminence. Wordsworth.

2.
a.

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

3.
a.

Undisguised. " Bald egotism." Lowell.

4.
a.

Destitute of dignity or value; paltry; mean. [Obs.]

5.
a.

Destitute of a beard or awn; as, bald wheat.

6.
a.

Destitute of the natural covering.

7.
a.

Marked with a white spot on the head; bald-faced. Bald buzzard (Zoöl.), the fishhawk or osprey. -- Bald coot (Zoöl.), a name of the European coot (Fulica atra), alluding to the bare patch on the front of the head.


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