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adjective

Bald adj.

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."

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

Undisguised. " Bald egotism."

Destitute of dignity or value; paltry; mean. (Obs.)

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

(Zool.)

(a)

Destitute of the natural covering.

(b)

Marked with a white spot on the head; bald-faced.

Bald buzzard (Zool.), the fishhawk or osprey.

Bald coot (Zool.), a name of the European coot (Fulica atra), alluding to the bare patch on the front of the head.

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Etymology of 'Bald'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bald" Quotes from Famous Books

... very poor piece; its conclusion is singularly bald. We hear nothing more of the self-sacrifice of Macaria, after it is over: as the determination seems to have cost herself no struggle, it makes as little impression upon others. The Athenian king, Demophon, does ...

— Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature • August Wilhelm Schlegel

... That mountain, there, that lifts its bald high head Above the forest, was, perchance, his throne; There has he stood and marked the woods outspread, Like a great kingdom, that was all his own; In hunting shirt and moccassins arrayed, With bear skin cap, and pouch, and ...

— The Emigrant - or Reflections While Descending the Ohio • Frederick William Thomas

... Security, raged at her assistant, bald-headed Terman Donlup. "Must I read about these things in the papers to keep ...

— The Deadly Daughters • Winston K. Marks

... the counter in the shadowy shop, his shoulders drooping like Daddy's. He was a big, kind-looking old man, his gray hair waving round a bald dome, his eyes bright blue. He was looking at a newspaper. It was a crumpled old paper that had been wrapped around someone's shoes; the Beechams didn't spend ...

— Across the Fruited Plain • Florence Crannell Means

... images in burned clay of the gods and of men, of which none but the Egyptians knew the allegorical meaning, stood in long rows on low wooden shelves. On the higher shelves were mummy bands and shrouds, some coarse, others of the very finest texture, wigs for the bald heads of shaven corpses, or woolen fillets, and simply or elaborately embroidered ribbons ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

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