adv. [f. BALD a. + -LY2.] In a bald manner; meagerly, nakedly.
1603. Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 1057 (R.). They do allegorize but very baldly.
1863. Kinglake, Crimea (1877), II. xiv. 236. They did not state baldly what they had ascertained.
adv. [f. BALD a. + -LY2.] In a bald manner; meagerly, nakedly.
1603. Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 1057 (R.). They do allegorize but very baldly.
1863. Kinglake, Crimea (1877), II. xiv. 236. They did not state baldly what they had ascertained.
