Bald
Bald (bald) , adjective
[Old English balled, ballid, perh. the past participle of ball to reduce to the roundness or smoothness of a ball, by removing hair. r85. But compare Welsh 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.
On the bald top of an eminence.
2.
Destitute of ornament; unadorned; bare; literal.
In the preface to his own bald translation.
3.
Undisguised.
Bald egotism.
4.
Destitute of dignity or value; paltry; mean. [Obsolete]
5.
(Botany) Destitute of a beard or awn; as, bald wheat.
6.
(a) (Zoology) Destitute of the natural covering.
(b)
(Zoology) Marked with a white spot on the head; bald-faced.
Collocations (2)
Bald buzzard (Zoology) , the fishhawk or osprey.
Bald coot (Zoology) , a name of the European coot (Fulica atra), alluding to the bare patch on the front of the head.