bald

bald
    adj 1: with no effort to conceal; "a barefaced lie" [syn:
           {bald}, {barefaced}]
    2: lacking hair on all or most of the scalp; "a bald pate"; "a
       bald-headed gentleman" [syn: {bald}, {bald-headed}, {bald-
       pated}]
    3: without the natural or usual covering; "a bald spot on the
       lawn"; "bare hills" [syn: {bald}, {denuded}, {denudate}]
    v 1: grow bald; lose hair on one's head; "He is balding already"
    

Bald \Bald\ (b[add]ld), 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.
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            On the bald top of an eminence.       --Wordsworth.
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   2. Destitute of ornament; unadorned; bare; literal.
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            In the preface to his own bald translation.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   3. Undisguised. " Bald egotism." --Lowell.
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   4. Destitute of dignity or value; paltry; mean. [Obs.]
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   5. (Bot.) Destitute of a beard or awn; as, bald wheat.
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   6. (Zool.)
      (a) Destitute of the natural covering.
      (b) Marked with a white spot on the head; bald-faced.
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   {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.
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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.
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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