bald : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: bald	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for bald
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bald adj with no effort to conceal; "a barefaced lie" [syn: bald, barefaced] lacking hair on all or most of the scalp; "a bald pate"; "a bald-headed gentleman" Synonym(s): bald, bald-headed, bald- pated without the natural or usual covering; "a bald spot on the lawn"; "bare hills" Synonym(s): bald, denuded, denudate v grow bald; lose hair on one's head; "He is balding already"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bald \Bald\, a. [OE. balled, ballid, perh. the p. p. of ball to reduce to the roundness or smoothness of a ball, by removing hair. [root]85. 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. On the bald top of an eminence. --Wordsworth. 2. Destitute of ornament; unadorned; bare; literal. In the preface to his own bald translation. --Dryden. 3. Undisguised. [bd] Bald egotism.[b8] --Lowell. 4. Destitute of dignity or value; paltry; mean. [Obs.] 5. (Bot.) Destitute of a beard or awn; as, bald wheat. 6. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Destitute of the natural covering. (b) Marked with a white spot on the head; bald-faced. {Bald buzzard} (Zo[94]l.), the fishhawk or osprey. {Bald coot} (Zo[94]l.), a name of the European coot ({Fulica atra}), alluding to the bare patch on the front of the head.