a. = prec.; whence Bald-patedness.

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1603.  Shaks., Meas. for M., V. i. 357. You bald-pated lying rascall.

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1606.  Day, Isle of Gulls, IV. v. This same baldpated oak.

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1818.  Scott, Rob Roy, xxxi. A forked, uncased, bald-pated, beggarly-looking scare-crow.

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1611.  Cotgr., Chauveté, Bauldnesse, bauld-patednesse.

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