BALD

Definitions

1. 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. 2. Destitute of ornament; unadorned; bare; literal. In the preface to his own bald translation. Dryden.
3. 3. Undisguised. " Bald egotism." Lowell.
4. 4. Destitute of dignity or value; paltry; mean. [Obs.]
5. 5. Destitute of a beard or awn; as, bald wheat.
6. 6. Destitute of the natural covering.
7. 7. Marked with a white spot on the head; bald-faced. Bald buzzard (Zoöl.), the fishhawk or osprey. -- Bald coot (Zoöl.), a name of the European coot (Fulica atra), alluding to the bare patch on the front of the head.