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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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Bald >> B Words
Bald, definition of term: Bald
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Bald Eagle >> B Words
Bald Eagle, definition of term: Bald Eagle
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