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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Brash; undisguised.
  • adjective Zoology Having a white face or face markings.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a white face or white on the face: said of animals: as, a bald-faced stag.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having a white face or a white mark on the face, as a stag.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective of an animal having white markings on the face.
  • adjective shameless and undisguised; barefaced

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective (of animals) having white markings on the face
  • adjective unrestrained by convention or propriety

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