The Collaborative International Dictionary
baldheaded \bald"head`ed\, bald-headed \bald"-head`ed\, a. Having a bald head; lacking hair on all or most of the scalp; -- alsp called bald and bald-pated; as, a bald-headed gentleman.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Having a bald head. 2 (context nautical English) (of a square-rigged ship) not having the royals set. 3 (context nautical English) (of a fore-and-aft rigged ship) having the topmasts struck down.
WordNet
adj. lacking hair on all or most of the scalp; "a bald pate"; "a bald-headed gentleman" [syn: bald, bald-pated]
Usage examples of "bald-headed".
Where the bimbashi and his officers were afraid to go lest the bald-headed eagle and the vulture should carry away their heads as titbits to the Libyan hills, Seti was sent.
Over the days he drew for the Doni portrait a strong-limbed, healthy young girl from one household, a plump, red-cheeked curly-haired child from another, a bald-headed bearded grandfather from a third, put them together in an affectionate grouping on the grass.
One instant, Joe Cardona was watching Goldy Tancred and Bowser Riggins as the pair were laughing at the capers of a stout, bald-headed politician.
Horus of Hibonu swooped down upon the back of a gazelle like a hunting hawk, Hathor of Denderah was a cow, Bastit of Bubastis was a cat or a tigress, while Nekhabit of El Kab was a great bald-headed vulture.
Denderah was a cow, Bastit of Bubastis was a cat or a tigress, while Nekhabit of El Kab was a great bald-headed vulture.
Postmaster, justice of the peace and mayor, Joel Romer was a bald-headed, constantly perspiring, but constantly laughing fellow with a moonlike face.
He looked up, frowning, as the bald-headed, oily Ed Runkle approached him.
Buenos Aires epidemic of sightings of a saucerful of bald-headed dwarfs on a motorway.
Greenleaf was unmistakable in nearly any crowd - a pudgy, bald-headed half-elf with slightly pointed ears showing his heritage, and clad in druidical garments.
When we entered the huge room, dressed in his garish cloak, tiny, bald-headed, long-featured, dark-eyed and porcelain-white, twirling the wand of his cane, Mister Snaith was a changed miniature wizard from some long-lost Age.
I wonder if they bequeathed that bald-headed anecdote to their successors, the railroad brakemen and conductors, and if these latter still persecute the helpless passenger with it until he concludes, as did many a tourist of other days, that the real grandeurs of the Pacific coast are not Yo Semite and the Big Trees, but Hank Monk and his adventure with Horace Greeley.
The bald-headed manager of the Sleepytime in San Jose had told us that two Mexicans and a young girl had been headed to Ocean-side in search of Charteris.
The number would not easily be forgotten, for each time he had addressed his ball, the stocky, bald-headed player had stood behind him, chuckling softly, tapping his weighted clubhead in his hand or casually lifting 64 it.
He was quite bald-headed and looked chubby and babylike with the sun streaming down on the top of his pink skull from the window on the stairwell.
I know now that the bald-headed man spoke with a strong Scotch accent.