KJV Dictionary Definition: bald

bald

BALD, a. bauld.

1. Destitute of hair, especially on the top and back of the head.

2. Destitute of the natural covering; as a bald oak.

3. Without feathers on the head; as a bald vulture.

4. Destitute of trees on the top; as a bald mountain.

5. Unadorned; inelegant; as a bald translation.

6. Mean; naked; base; without dignity or value.

7. In popular language, open, bold, audacious.

8. Without beard or awn; as bald wheat.

baldness

BALD'NESS, n. Want of hair on the top and back of the head; loss of hair; meanness or inelegance of writing; want of ornament.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.

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