Found 1 hit - Term: bald coot, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
bald \bald\ baddld, a. oe. balled, ballid, perh. the p. p.
of ball to reduce to the roundness or smoothness of a ball,
by removing hair. root85. 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.
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on the bald top of an eminence. --wordsworth.
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2. destitute of ornament; unadorned; bare; literal.
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in the preface to his own bald translation.
--dryden.
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3. undisguised. " bald egotism." --lowell.
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4. destitute of dignity or value; paltry; mean. obs.
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5. bot. destitute of a beard or awn; as, bald wheat.
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6. zool.
a destitute of the natural covering.
b marked with a white spot on the head; bald-faced.
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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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see also:
bald buzzard bald coot fulica atra
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