BALDING

balding

(adjective) getting bald

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

balding

present participle of bald

Adjective

balding (comparative more balding, superlative most balding)

becoming bald, especially having male pattern baldness

Anagrams

• Bigland, badling, blading

Proper noun

Balding (plural Baldings)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Balding is the 30701st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 759 individuals. Balding is most common among White (91.7%) individuals.

Anagrams

• Bigland, badling, blading

Source: Wiktionary


BALD

Bald, a. Etym: [OE. balled, ballid, perh. the p.p. of ball to reduce to the roundness or smoothness of a ball, by removing hair. sq. root85. 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. On the bald top of an eminence. Wordsworth.

2. Destitute of ornament; unadorned; bare; literal. In the preface to his own bald translation. Dryden.

3. Undisguised. " Bald egotism." Lowell.

4. Destitute of dignity or value; paltry; mean. [Obs.]

5. (Bot.)

Definition: Destitute of a beard or awn; as, bald wheat.

6. (Zoöl.) (a) Destitute of the natural covering. (b) Marked with a white spot on the head; bald-faced. Bald buzzard (Zoöl.), the fishhawk or osprey.

– Bald coot (Zoöl.), a name of the European coot (Fulica atra), alluding to the bare patch on the front of the head.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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