Found 4 hits - Term: bald, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [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
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
baldheaded \bald"head`ed\, bald-headed \bald"-head`ed\, a.
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
see also:
bald bald-pated
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
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"
see also:
barefaced bare denuded denudate bald-headed bald-pated
- [4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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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