Толковый словарь английского языка - bald
Bald
bald
I. adjective Etymology: Middle English balled; probably akin to Danish dialect bældet ~, Latin fulica coot, Greek phalios having a white spot, Old English bǣl fire, pyre Date: 14th century 1. lacking a natural or usual covering (as of hair, vegetation, or nap), having little or no tread , marked with white, lacking adornment or amplification , undisguised , palpable , see: bare ~ish adjective ~ly adverb ~ness noun II. verb Date: 1602 transitive verb to make ~, intransitive verb to become ~
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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' ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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