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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.

The white-headed eagle (Haliæetus leucocephalus) of America. The young, until several years old, lack the white feathers on the head.

Having a white face or a white mark on the face, as a stag.

pended from the roof or projecting from the wall; generally placed over an altar; as, the baldachin in St. Peter's.

tiful and beloved of the gods; the god of peace; the son of Odin and Freya. [Written also Baldur.]

liquors. Indeed beer, by a mixture of wine, hath lost both name and nature, and is called balderdash. Taylor (Drink and Welcome).

A person whose head is bald. 2 Kings ii. 23.

Having a bald head.

Nakedly; without reserve; inelegantly.

The state or condition of being bald; as, baldness of the head; baldness of style. This gives to their syntax a peculiar character of simplicity and baldness. W. D. Whitney.

A baldheaded person. Shak.

Destitute of hair on the head; baldheaded. Shak.

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

st, and under the opposite arm; less properly, any belt. [Also spelt bawdrick.] A radiant baldric o'er his shoulder tied Sustained the sword that glittered at his side. Pope.

A kind of reddish, moderately acid, winter apple. [U.S.]

A metal-hubbed wheel of great strength and elasticity, esp. adapted for artillery carriages and motor cars.

so called from its resemblance in shape to the red shirt worn by the Italians patriot Garibaldi.

Having spots and patches of black and white, or other colors; mottled; pied. "A piebald steed of Thracian strain." Dryden.

See Piebald.

A low, vulgar, brutal, foul-mouthed wretch; a lewd fellow. Spenser. Pope. Ribald was almost a class name in the feudal system . . . He was his patron's parasite, bulldog, and tool . . . It is not to be wondered at that the word rapidly became a synonym for everything ruffianly and brutal. Earle.