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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

... never uttered a truer thing than when he said, 'Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.' Evidently the government's mind was tottering when this bald insults to the House was the best way it could contrive for getting out of ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... pass their awkward convoy. After I had ridden about ten miles the road went up a steep hill in the forest, turned abruptly, and through the blue gloom of the great pines which rose from the ravine in which the river was then hid, came glimpses of two mountains, about 11,000 feet in height, whose bald grey summits were crowned with pure snow. It was one of those glorious surprises in scenery which make one feel as if one must bow down and worship. The forest was thick, and had an undergrowth of dwarf spruce and brambles, but as the ...

— A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains • Isabella L. Bird

... She gasped for breath, drawing back slightly from the nearness of his lips. "Do you mean—you'd like—to marry me?" she whispered tremulously, and hid her face on the instant; for the bald ...

— Greatheart • Ethel M. Dell

... stuff do you use on your hair? You've got a fine bunch there. I'd like to get next. Look at me!" and he pulled off his hat and showed a head shiny and bald. ...

— The Moving Picture Girls at Rocky Ranch - Or, Great Days Among the Cowboys • Laura Lee Hope

... flanks of barren hills—gaunt masses of crimson and grey crag, clothed at their summits with short turf and scanty pasture. The pass leads first to the little town of Scheggia, and is called the Monte Calvo, or bald mountain. At Scheggia, it joins the great Flaminian Way, or North road of the Roman armies. At the top there is a fine view over the conical hills that dominate Gubbio, and, far away, to noble mountains ...

— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series • John Addington Symonds

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