bald

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  1. adjective Lacking hair on the head.
  2. adjective Lacking a natural or usual covering: a bald spot on the lawn.
  3. adjective Lacking treads: a bald tire.

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balding ·  middle-aged ·  bearded ·  bare ·  tall ·  hairless ·  blond ·  lean ·  hairy ·  thin ·  barren ·  plump
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  1. Middle English balled, probably from bal, ball; see ball1.

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  1. Early modern English also balde, baulde, bal'd, ball'd, from Middle English balde, belde, earlier balled, ballid, ballede, bald; of uncertain origin, (1) by some regarded as identical with the rare early Middle English ballede, in the apparent sense of rotund, corpulent, applied to the body, literally ‘balled,’ round like a ball (from ball + -ed), and hence, perhaps, of the head, smooth, hairless; otherwise (2) perhaps from ball, a white streak or spot (a word of Celtic origin not found in Middle English, but prob. then existent: see ball), + -ede, an adjective suffix connected with -ed.
  2. from bald, a.
 

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/bɔld/
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