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English Dictionary: bald-head by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Widgeon \Widg"eon\, n. [Probably from an old French form of F.
      vigeon, vingeon, gingeon; of uncertain origin; cf. L. vipio,
      -onis, a kind of small crane.] (Zo[94]l.)
      Any one of several species of fresh-water ducks, especially
      those belonging to the subgenus {Mareca}, of the genus
      {Anas}. The common European widgeon ({Anas penelope}) and the
      American widgeon ({A. Americana}) are the most important
      species. The latter is called also {baldhead}, {baldpate},
      {baldface}, {baldcrown}, {smoking duck}, {wheat}, {duck}, and
      {whitebelly}.
  
      {Bald-faced}, [or] {Green-headed}, widgeon, the American
            widgeon.
  
      {Black widgeon}, the European tufted duck.
  
      {Gray widgeon}.
      (a) The gadwall.
      (b) The pintail duck.
  
      {Great headed widgeon}, the poachard.
  
      {Pied widgeon}.
      (a) The poachard.
      (b) The goosander.
  
      {Saw-billed widgeon}, the merganser.
  
      {Sea widgeon}. See in the Vocabulary.
  
      {Spear widgeon}, the goosander. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {Spoonbilled widgeon}, the shoveler.
  
      {White widgeon}, the smew.
  
      {Wood widgeon}, the wood duck.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Baldhead \Bald"head`\, n.
      1. A person whose head is bald. --2 Kings ii. 23.
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.) A white-headed variety of pigeon.
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