bald-paten.
One who has a bald head; transferred an American widgeon ( Anas americana or Mareca americana), and a variety of pigeon.
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the world > life > the body > hair > hair of head > [noun] > state of having no > person having no
callowc1300
ballarda1382
pilgarlica1529
bald-head1535
bald-pate1601
smooth-patea1616
alopic1623
bald-coot1823
baldy1863
bladder of lard1864
skinhead1945
slaphead1990
the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Anas (miscellaneous) > anas americana (American widgeon)
bald-face1709
bald-pate1813
poacher1888
wheat-duck1888
the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > domestic pigeon > [noun] > bald-head
bald1854
bald-head1855
bald-pate1883
1601 A. Dent Plaine Mans Path-way to Heauen 147 Mocked Elishah..calling him bald head, bald pate.
1813 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. VIII. 86 The..widgeons, or as they are called round the bay, bald pates.
1838 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. IV. 337 In the Western Country, and in most parts of the Eastern and Middle States, it is called the Bald Pate.
1865 E. H. Noel tr. J. P. F. Richter Flower Pieces (1871) I. v. 141 But had solicited the bald-pates in vain.
1883 Cent. Mag. 26 925 Mallard, baldpate, and wood-duck.
1907 Westm. Gaz. 25 Nov. 8/3 The ‘bald-pate’, as it is familiarly called, is a gregarious bird, frequenting the North American estuaries.
Compounds
attributive or as adj. = bald adj. (in various senses).
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the world > life > the body > hair > hair of head > [adjective] > having no
calloweOE
baldc1386
as bald (bare, black) as a coot1430
forehead-bald1530
pilled-pated1542
bald-pate1578
bald-headed1580
bald-pated1606
bald-head1820
baldish1833
tonsured1855
pollard1856
thin on top1869
slap-headed1994
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [adjective] > without natural or usual covering
barec885
nakedeOE
uncovered1565
bald-pated1606
bald-pate1683
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 405 Osmunde baldepate or Pylde Osmunde.
a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1604) sig. D2 A troupe of bald-pate Friers.
1683 W. Soames tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Art of Poetry (T.) Nor perriwig with snow the baldpate woods.
1827 J. Montgomery Pelican Island ii. 244 Swarms..Cover'd the bald-pate reef.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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