Obs. [f. prec. sb.] To make bald, deprive of hair. lit. and fig.
1602. Fulbecke, Pandects, 78. In Germany they vse to cut off the heare of an adultresse … I haue seene some of them balded here in Englande.
1628. Feltham, Resolves, I. iv. (1647), 9. While … Winter bald’s the shag-hair’d wood.
