baldı (bald)

and n. [Early mod. E. also balde, baulde, bal'd, ball'd, His heed was ballid and schon as eny glas. Cæsar, Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 198. Add is on. .. because his head was bald , covered that de fect with laurels. 2. Without the natural or usual covering of the head or top; bareheaded: as, a bald oak; a bald mountain. No question asked him by any of the senators, but they stand bald before him. Shak ., Cor., iv. 5. Thy bald , awful head, O sovran Blanc! Cole ridge, Chamouni. 3. Destitute of beard or awn: as, bald wheat. -4. Wanting force or meaning; meager; paltry: as, a bald sermon; a bald truism.-5. Destitute of appropriate ornament; too bare, plain, or literal; unadorned; inelegant: as, "a bald translation," Long fellow, Hyper i on, iii. 6. Balder-brae He [Milton] could stoop to a plain style, sometimes even to a bald style; but false brilliancy was his utter aversion. Macaulay, Milton. Ghastly thro' the drizzling rain On the bald street breaks the blank day. Tennyson, In Memoriam, vii. IMG:content-1583.png:[graphic] 6. Bare; open; undisguised. ne . A bald egotism which is quite above and beyond selfish Lowell , Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 314. 7. Having white on the face or head: specifically applied to several birds: as, the bald buzzard, eagle, etc. II. n. A natural meadow or gra y plain occurring on the rounded summit of a high mountain: a term in use in the southern extension of the Appal a chi an ranges, where a number of the highest knobs have their dome-shaped tops entirely bare of trees.