BALDLY

baldly

(adverb) in a bald manner; “this book is, to put it baldly, an uneven work.”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adverb

baldly (comparative more baldly, superlative most baldly)

In a bald manner.

Anagrams

• Dyball

Source: Wiktionary


Bald"ly, adv.

Definition: Nakedly; without reserve; inelegantly.

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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