adj.1 (of a person) with the scalp wholly or partly lacking hair.
2 (of an animal, plant, etc.) not covered by the usual hair, feathers, leaves, etc.
3 colloq. with the surface worn away (a bald tyre).
4 a blunt, unelaborated (a bald statement). b undisguised (the bald effrontery).
5 meagre or dull (a bald style).
6 marked with white, esp. on the face (a bald horse).
Phrases and idioms:
bald eagle a white-headed eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), used as the emblem of the United States.
Derivatives:
balding adj. (in senses 1-3). baldish adj. baldly adv. (in sense 4). baldness n.
Etymology: ME ballede, orig. 'having a white blaze', prob. f. an OE root ball- 'white patch'