bald

adj

1. Having little or no hair, fur, or feathers.

   “My uncle is bald.”

   “The Skin Horse had lived longer in the nursery than any of the others. He was so old that his brown coat was bald in patches and showed the seams underneath, and most of the hairs in his tail had been pulled out to string bead necklaces.”

   “Porn didn't revolutionize our pubic hair overnight […] but the general gist is that the vast majority of porn performers in film and magazines had full bushes until Hustler magazine printed a bald vulva, a so-called ‘pink shot’, in 1974.”

2. (specifically)Having little or no hair, fur, or feathers.

   “a bald man with a moustache”

   ““I am getting balder and balder trying to figure these things out,” he said at an event in Washington, D.C. on Monday where he acknowledged – as he has before – that he would not run outside the Democratic party establishment.”

   “There has never been a bald James Bond nor a hairless contestant on Love Island. Growing up, bald men were never the superheroes and always the villains.”

3. Of animals, having areas (of fur or plumage) that are colored white, especially on the head.
4. (figuratively)Lacking any covering.

   “The bald cypress is a tree that loses its leaves in winter.”

5. (figuratively)Of a tyre, whose surface is worn away.
6. (figuratively)Of a statement or account, unembellished.

   “Such is a bald statement of the singular and romantic series of events which centred public attention upon this Lancashire tragedy.”

   “The NYSDOT, through the DSEIS, makes a bald assertion in the DSEIS, but does not explain in detail, why it feels that the Short Bypass Tunnel provides a more appropriate and respectful setting for the WTC Memorial.”

   “Here the existential process (“there is”) functions as a bald assertion of fact, with no hedging or concessions to the observer's subjectivity, while the nominalization (“a significant role-reversal”) activates a pre-existing category from the discourse of Literary Criticism, into which the present "specimen" will be slotted.”

   “But yesterday's remarks are the baldest affirmation yet that Putin has no real intention of resigning from politics.”

7. (figuratively)Of a statement, without evidence or support being provided.

   “The plaintiff in this case must satisfy the judge that she has visible means, the mere bald statement that she has visible means is not suflicient.”

   “The question regarding this issue is whether the applicant raised sufficient doubts regarding adoption and use of the official mark by the respondent as to have the effect that the respondent's bald assertion is not enough to provide evidence that the official mark was adopted and used or whether a negative inference should be drawn from the failure of the respondent to provide further evidence.”

   “The Criminal Procedure Act of 1977 gives police officials the power and discretion to conduct identification procedures 'A bald statement that the accused is the person who committed the crime is not enough ... the greatest care should be taken to test the evidence.”

   “The EC's bald assertion of compliance in the context of this scientific and factual landscape highlights the fact that it has made no effort to demonstrate how its new import ban satisfies the conditions of a "provisional" ban under Article 5.7 of the SPS Agreement or "rationally relates" to or is "reasonably supported" by a risk assessment for purposes of Article 5.1 of the SPS Agreement.”

noun

1. (Appalachia)A mountain summit or crest that lacks forest growth despite a warm climate conducive to such, as is found in many places in the Southern Appalachian Mountains.
2. (uncommon)A bald person.

   “Brn hair eyes & stache sks same 28-38 for gd times fun frndship & or possibly more near Waltham area no balds drugs queens kinky scenes fats or pot smokg.”

verb

1. (intransitive)To become bald.
2. (transitive)To make bald.

   “He looked like a new Army recruit. "You've balded me!" he cried. He was so mad and hurt. He told Mom he wasn't going back to school until his hair grew out.”

name

1. A surname.