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BALD
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lacking hair on all or most of the scalp
Example:
a bald-headed gentleman
Synonyms:
bald; bald-headed; bald-pated
Classified under:
Similar:
hairless (having no hair or fur)
Derivation:
baldness (the condition of having no hair on the top of the head)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Without the natural or usual covering
Example:
bare hills
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
bare (lacking its natural or customary covering)
Sense 3
Meaning:
With no effort to conceal
Example:
a barefaced lie
Synonyms:
bald; barefaced
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
open; overt (open and observable; not secret or hidden)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Grow bald; lose hair on one's head
Example:
He is balding already
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "bald" is one way to...):
grow; turn (pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Sentence example:
They bald
Context examples:
Jo dropped a kiss on the top of Mr. Laurence's bald head, and ran up to slip the apology under Laurie's door, advising him through the keyhole to be submissive, decorous, and a few other agreeable impossibilities.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
For they saw, standing in just the spot the screen had hidden, a little old man, with a bald head and a wrinkled face, who seemed to be as much surprised as they were.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
The rosy man had grown pale; his flesh had fallen away; he was visibly balder and older; and yet it was not so much these tokens of a swift physical decay that arrested the lawyer’s notice, as a look in the eye and quality of manner that seemed to testify to some deep-seated terror of the mind.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
There he lay, with that bald head across the knees of the man who had killed him and the quick fishes steering to and fro over both.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
He sat in the armchair with the light shining upon his broad bald head, while he puffed sedately at his cigar.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“That is very fairly set forth,” said Sir Nigel, nodding his bald head as each sentence was read to him.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The cases which come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and vulgar enough.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was bald on the top of his head; and had some thin wet-looking hair that was just turning grey, brushed across each temple, so that the two sides interlaced on his forehead.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
"One moment, sir," I said, as I realized that it was a pink bald head, and not a red face, which was fronting me.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He ran, he flew, he pranced, his face glowed, his bald head shown, his coattails waved wildly, his pumps actually twinkled in the air, and when the music stopped, he wiped the drops from his brow, and beamed upon his fellow men like a French Pickwick without glasses.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
