Definition of "baldface" [baldface]

• The widgeon, Anas americana. See baldhead, 4. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• ""They say the baldface grizzlies are thick in the Yukon Basin," Kit explained."
• "And the latest thing he had done was always on men's lips, whether it was being first in the heartbreaking stampede to Danish Creek, in killing the record baldface grizzly over on Sulphur Creek, or in winning the single-paddle canoe race on the Queen's Birthday, after being forced to participate at the last moment by the failure of the sourdough representative to appear."
• "And he knew the subtle speech of the things that moved, of the rabbit in the snare, the moody raven beating the air with hollow wing, the baldface shuffling under the moon, the wolf like a gray shadow gliding betwixt the twilight and the dark."