Pronunciation: (bôld), [key] 1. having little or no hair on the
scalp: a bald head; a bald person. 2. destitute of some natural
growth or covering: a bald mountain. 3. lacking detail; bare;
plain; unadorned: a bald prose style. 4. open; undisguised: a
bald lie. 5. Zool.having white on the head: the bald eagle. 6.
Auto.(of a tire) having the tread completely worn away. to
become bald. (often cap.) Chiefly South Midland and Southern
U.S.a treeless mountaintop or area near the top: often used as
part of a proper name. Random House Unabridged Dictionary,
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