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Bald-faced
(gcide) | Bald-faced \Bald"-faced`\, a.
Having a white face or a white mark on the face, as a stag.
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bald-faced
(wn) | bald-faced
adj 1: (of animals) having white markings on the face
2: unrestrained by convention or propriety; "an audacious trick
to pull"; "a barefaced hypocrite"; "the most bodacious
display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times;
"bald-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with
its quick material successes and insolent belief in the
boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell [syn:
audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced,
brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent] |
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Bald-faced
(gcide) | Bald-faced \Bald"-faced`\, a.
Having a white face or a white mark on the face, as a stag.
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Bald-faced widgeon
(gcide) | Widgeon \Widg"eon\, n. [Probably from an old French form of F.
vigeon, vingeon, gingeon; of uncertain origin; cf. L. vipio,
-onis, a kind of small crane.] (Zool.)
Any one of several species of fresh-water ducks, especially
those belonging to the subgenus Mareca, of the genus
Anas. The common European widgeon (Anas penelope) and the
American widgeon (Anas Americana) are the most important
species. The latter is called also baldhead, baldpate,
baldface, baldcrown, smoking duck, wheat, duck, and
whitebelly.
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Bald-faced widgeon, or Green-headed widgeon, the American
widgeon.
Black widgeon, the European tufted duck.
Gray widgeon.
(a) The gadwall.
(b) The pintail duck.
Great headed widgeon, the poachard.
Pied widgeon.
(a) The poachard.
(b) The goosander.
Saw-billed widgeon, the merganser.
Sea widgeon. See in the Vocabulary.
Spear widgeon, the goosander. [Prov. Eng.]
Spoonbilled widgeon, the shoveler.
White widgeon, the smew.
Wood widgeon, the wood duck.
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bald-faced hornet
(wn) | bald-faced hornet
n 1: North American hornet [syn: bald-faced hornet, {white-
faced hornet}, Vespula maculata] |
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