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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.
      1913 webster

            on the bald top of an eminence.       --wordsworth.
      1913 webster

   2. destitute of ornament; unadorned; bare; literal.
      1913 webster

            in the preface to his own bald translation.
                                                  --dryden.
      1913 webster

   3. undisguised. " bald egotism." --lowell.
      1913 webster

   4. destitute of dignity or value; paltry; mean. obs.
      1913 webster

   5. bot. destitute of a beard or awn; as, bald wheat.
      1913 webster

   6. zool.
      a destitute of the natural covering.
      b marked with a white spot on the head; bald-faced.
          1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster
see also:
bald buzzard bald coot fulica atra 

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