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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.

Destitute of hair on the head; baldheaded. Shak.

A piece of pork cut lower down than the sparerib, and destitute of fat. [Eng.] Southey.

The process of temporarily raising the value of a stock, as by fictitious sales. [U.S.]

To vote for or in opposition to. None of the competitors arriving to a sufficient number of balls, they fell to ballot some others. Sir H. Wotton.

An ancient title of the warden of the eastern marches of Hungary; now, a title of the viceroy of Croatia and Slavonia.

ney, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity.

Destitute of, or wholly wanting (something once possessed, or something one should possess). "Bankrupt in gratitude." Sheridan. Bankrupt law, a law by which the property of a person who is unable or unwilling to pay his debts may be taken and distributed to his creditors, and by which a person who has made a full surre…

, a knight who led his vassals into the field under his own banner; -- commonly used as a title of rank.

An indefinite quantity of some substance, so shaped as to be long in proportion to its breadth and thickness; as, a bar of gold or of lead; a bar of soap.

One of the side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane. See Feather.

A person destitute of culture. M. Arnold.

r pertaining to, or resembling, an uncivilized person or people; barbarous; barbarian; destitute of refinement. "Wild, barbaric music." Sir W. Scott.

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.

Merely; only. R. For now his son is duke. W. Barely in title, not in revenue. Shak.

Destitute of bark.

A title or degree of nobility; originally, the possessor of a fief, who had feudal tenants under him; in modern times, in France and Germany, a nobleman next in rank below a count; in England, a nobleman of the lowest grade in the House of Lords, being next below a viscount.

The land which gives title to a baron. [Obs.]

A baron's wife; also, a lady who holds the baronial title in her own right; as, the Baroness Burdett-Coutts.

Tainter with, or constituting, barratry. -- Bar"ra*trous*ly, adv. Kent.