bald

bald is an Adverb

Definition:

[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. On the bald top of an eminence. Wordsworth.

[2] Destitute of ornament; unadorned; bare; literal. In the preface to his own bald translation. Dryden.

[3] Undisguised. " Bald egotism." Lowell.

[4] Destitute of dignity or value; paltry; mean. [Obs.]

[5] Destitute of a beard or awn; as, bald wheat.

[6] Destitute of the natural covering.

[7] Marked with a white spot on the head; bald-faced. Bald buzzard (Zoöl.), the fishhawk or osprey. -- Bald coot (Zoöl.), a name of the European coot (Fulica atra), alluding to the bare patch on the front of the head.