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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bald \Bald\ (b[add]ld), adjective [OE. balled, ballid, perh. the p. p. of ball to reduce to the roundness or smoothness of a ball, by removing hair. [root]85. But cf. W. bali whiteness in a horse's forehead.]
1. 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. Destitute of ornament; unadorned; bare; literal.
In the preface to his own bald translation. --Dryden.
3. Undisguised. '' Bald egotism.'' --Lowell.
4. Destitute of dignity or value; paltry; mean. [Obs.]
5. (Bot.) Destitute of a beard or awn; as, bald wheat.
6. (Zo["o]l.) (a) Destitute of the natural covering. (b) Marked with a white spot on the head; bald-faced.
{Bald buzzard} (Zo["o]l.), the fishhawk or osprey.
{Bald coot} (Zo["o]l.), a name of the European coot ({Fulica atra}), alluding to the bare patch on the front of the head.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
baldheaded \bald"head'ed\, bald-headed \bald"-head'ed\, adjective Having a bald head; lacking hair on all or most of the scalp; -- alsp called {bald} and {bald-pated}; as, a bald-headed gentleman. [1913 Webster +PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
bald
adjective
1: with no effort to conceal; "a barefaced lie" [syn: {barefaced}]
2: without the natural or usual covering; "a bald spot on the lawn"; "bare hills" [syn: {bare}, {denuded}, {denudate}]
3: lacking hair on all or most of the scalp; "a bald pate"; "a bald-headed gentleman" [syn: {bald-headed}, {bald-pated}]
verb: grow bald; lose hair on one's head; "He is balding already"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
106 Moby Thesaurus words for "bald": Spartan, acomous, ascetic, austere, bald-headed, bare, bare-ass, beardless, blank, candid, clean-shaven, clear, cleared, clipped, colorless, common, commonplace, cropped, depilous, direct, disclosed, dry, dull, exposed, frank, free, glabrous, gymnosophical, hairless, homely, homespun, in native buff, in puris naturalibus, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, lackluster, lean, lifeless, lusterless, matter-of-fact, naked, natural, naturistic, neat, nude, nudist, open, open as day, open to all, overt, peeled, plain, plain-speaking, plain-spoken, polled, prosaic, prosing, prosy, pure, raw, revealed, rustic, severe, shaven, sheared, simple, simple-speaking, smooth, smooth-faced, smooth-shaven, sober, spare, stark, stark-naked, straightforward, tonsured, unadorned, unadulterated, unaffected, unarrayed, unclassified, unclogged, unclosed, uncolored, uncomplicated, uncovered, undecked, undecorated, undressed, unembellished, unfurbished, ungarnished, unhidden, unimaginative, unobstructed, unornamented, unpoetical, unrestricted, unsophisticated, unstopped, untrimmed, unvarnished, wide-open, with nothing on, without a stitch
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