Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bald"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bald \Bald\, a. [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 WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
bald
adj 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}]
v : grow bald; lose hair on one's head; "He is balding already"
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