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# A [[bald]]-headed person.
# A [[bald]]-headed person.
#: {{rfquotek|Shakespeare}}
#: {{rfquotek|Shakespeare}}
# A bird, the [[American]] [[wigeon]] (''[[Anas americana]]'').
# A bird, the [[American wigeon]] (''[[Anas americana]]'').


{{Webster 1913}}
{{Webster 1913}}

Revision as of 02:58, 26 June 2015

English

Etymology

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Noun

baldpate (plural baldpates)

  1. A bald-headed person.
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  2. A bird, the American wigeon (Anas americana).

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “baldpate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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