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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bold \Bold\ (b[=o]ld), adjective [OE. bald, bold, AS. bald, beald; akin to Icel. ballr, OHG. bald, MHG. balt, D. boud, Goth. bal[thorn]ei boldness, It. baldo. In Ger. there remains only bald, adverb soon. Cf. {Bawd}, noun]
1. Forward to meet danger; venturesome; daring; not timorous or shrinking from risk; brave; courageous.
Throngs of knights and barons bold. --Milton.
2. Exhibiting or requiring spirit and contempt of danger; planned with courage; daring; vigorous. ''The bold design leased highly.'' --Milton.
3. In a bad sense, too forward; taking undue liberties; over assuming or confident; lacking proper modesty or restraint; rude; impudent.
Thou art too wild, too rude and bold of voice. --Shak.
4. Somewhat overstepping usual bounds, or conventional rules, as in art, literature, etc.; taking liberties in composition or expression; as, the figures of an author are bold. ''Bold tales.'' --Waller.
The cathedral church is a very bold work. --Addison.
5. Standing prominently out to view; markedly conspicuous; striking the eye; in high relief.
Shadows in painting . . . make the figure bolder. --Dryden.
6. Steep; abrupt; prominent.
Where the bold cape its warning forehead rears. --Trumbull.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bold \Bold\, verb (used with an object) To make bold or daring. [Obs.] --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bold \Bold\, verb (used without an object) To be or become bold. [Obs.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
bold
adjective
1: fearless and daring; "bold settlers on some foreign shore"; "a bold speech"; "a bold adventure" [ant: {timid}]
2: clear and distinct; "bold handwriting"; "a figure carved in bold relief"; "a bold design"
3: very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front; "a bluff headland"; "where the bold chalk cliffs of England rise"; "a sheer descent of rock" [syn: {bluff}, {sheer}]
noun: a typeface with thick heavy lines [syn: {boldface}, {bold face}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
161 Moby Thesaurus words for "bold": abrupt, adventurous, arrant, arrogant, audacious, aweless, barefaced, blatant, bluff, bold as brass, bold-spirited, boldfaced, bossed, bossy, brash, brassy, brave, brazen, brazenfaced, breakneck, bumptious, challenging, chased, cheeky, chivalric, chivalrous, clear, cocky, confident, conspicuous, contemptuous, contumelious, courageous, daredevil, daring, dauntless, death-defying, defiant, defying, derisive, disdainful, disregardful, distinct, doughty, embossed, eminent, emissile, enterprising, excrescent, excrescential, exhibitionistic, extruding, fearless, fire-eating, fit for sea, flagrant, foolhardy, forward, fresh, gallant, glaring, greathearted, greatly daring, hanging out, hardy, harebrained, headlong, heroic, herolike, immodest, impertinent, impudent, in relief, in the foreground, incautious, insolent, intrepid, ironhearted, jutting, knightlike, knightly, lionhearted, lost to shame, madbrain, madbrained, madcap, manful, manly, nervy, notable, noticeable, notorious, obtrusive, ostensible, outstanding, pert, plucky, plunging, precipitous, presumptuous, procacious, prognathous, projecting, prominent, pronounced, protrudent, protruding, protrusile, protrusive, protuberant, protuberating, raised, rapid, rash, reckless, regardless of consequences, resolute, salient, sassy, saucy, sea-kindly, seaworthy, shameless, sharp, sheer, smart, smart-alecky, snug, soldierlike, soldierly, stalwart, staring, stark-staring, steep, sticking out, stiff, stout, stouthearted, striking, strong, swaggering, temerarious, tender, unabashed, unafraid, unashamed, unblushing, undaunted, unembarrassed, unmodest, valiant, valorous, venturesome, vertical, vigorous, vivid, waterproof, watertight, weatherly, wild, wild-ass
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