ETYM Old Eng. balled, ballid, perh. the p. p. of ball to reduce to the roundness or smoothness of a ball, by removing hair. But cf. W. bali whiteness in a horse's forehead.
(Homonym: balled).
1. Lacking hair on all or most of the scalp; SYN. bald-headed, bald-pated.
2. With no effort to conceal; SYN. barefaced.
3. Without the natural or usual covering; SYN. bare, denuded, denudate.

bald headed, bald-headed

ETYM Old Eng. calewe, calu, bald, AS. calu; akin to Dutch kaal, Old High Germ. chalo, German Kuhl; cf. Latin calvus.
Lacking experience of life; SYN. inexperienced, naive, unsophisticated.
Unfledged; inexperienced.

A person whose head is bald; SYN. baldpate, baldy. bald head

Getting bald.
Becoming bald

To grow bald; lose hair on one's head.

A person whose head is bald; SYN. baldpate, baldy. bald head

1. BALDHEAD
2. AMERICAN WIGEON. bald pate

ETYM Latin alopecia, Greek alopekia, from alophx fox, because loss of the hair is common among foxes.
Loss of hair (especially on the head) or wool or feathers; in humans it can result from heredity or hormonal imbalance or certain diseases or drugs and treatments (chemotherapy for cancer).
Patchy baldness, baldness. alopecia areata, loss of hair in small patches.
Another name for baldness.

Loss of hair from the scalp, common in older men. Its onset and extent are influenced by genetic makeup and the level of male sex hormones. There is no cure, and expedients such as hair implants may have no lasting effect. Hair loss in both sexes may also occur as a result of ill health or radiation treatment, such as for cancer. Alopecia, a condition in which the hair falls out, is different from the “male-pattern baldness” described above.
The condition of having no hair (especially on the top of the head); SYN. hairlessness, phalacrosis.

Lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life; SYN. jejuneness, juvenility.

Patchy baldness.