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English → English (gcide) Definition: Bald coot Bald \Bald\ (b[add]ld), a. [OE. balled, ballid, perh. the p. p. of ball to reduce to the roundness or smoothness of a ball, by removing hair. [root]85. But cf. W. bali whiteness in a horse's forehead.] 1. Destitute of the natural or common covering on the head or top, as of hair, feathers, foliage, trees, etc.; as, a bald head; a bald oak. [1913 Webster] On the bald top of an eminence. --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster] 2. Destitute of ornament; unadorned; bare; literal. [1913 Webster] In the preface to his own bald translation. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 3. Undisguised. “ Bald egotism.” --Lowell. [1913 Webster] 4. Destitute of dignity or value; paltry; mean. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] 5. (Bot.) Destitute of a beard or awn; as, bald wheat. [1913 Webster] 6. (Zo["o]l.) (a) Destitute of the natural covering. (b) Marked with a white spot on the head; bald-faced. [1913 Webster] Bald buzzard (Zo["o]l.), the fishhawk or osprey. Bald coot (Zo["o]l.), a name of the European coot (Fulica atra ), alluding to the bare patch on the front of the head. [1913 Webster]