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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BALDWIN

BALDWIN Bald "win, n. (Bot. )

 

Defn: A kind of reddish, moderately acid, winter apple. [U.S.]

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

Baldwin, Henry

Bald win, Henry |ˈbôldwin ˈbɔldwən | (1780 –1844 ), US Supreme Court associate justice 1830 –44. He also served in Congress as a representative from Pennsylvania 1817 –22.

 

Baldwin, James

Bald win, James |ˈbɔldwən ˈbôldwin | (1924 –87 ), US writer and civil rights activist; full name James Arthur Baldwin. Notable works: novels Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953 ), Giovanni's Room (1956 ), and Another Country (1962 ); essay collections Nobody Knows My Name (1961 ) and The Price of a Ticket (1985 ).

 

Baldwin, Stanley

Bald win, Stanley |ˈbɔldwən ˈbôldwin |, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley (1867 –1947 ), British statesman; prime minister 1923 –24, 1924 –29, and 1935 –37.

 

Baldwin Park

Bald win Park a city in southwestern California, east of Los Angeles; pop. 77,380 (est. 2008 ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

Baldwin, Henry

Bald win, Henry |ˈbôldwin ˈbɔldwən | (1780 –1844 ), US Supreme Court associate justice 1830 –44. He also served in Congress as a representative from Pennsylvania 1817 –22.

 

Baldwin, James

Baldwin, James |ˈbɔːldwɪn | (1924 –87 ), American novelist and black civil rights activist; full name James Arthur Baldwin. Notable works: Go Tell it on the Mountain (1953 ) and Giovanni's Room (1956 ).

 

Baldwin, Stanley

Baldwin, Stanley |ˈbɔːldwɪn |, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley (1867 –1947 ), British Conservative statesman, Prime Minister 1923 –4, 1924 –9, and 1935 –7. Despite the German occupation of the Rhineland and the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War (both 1936 ), Baldwin opposed demands for rearmament, believing that the public would not support it.

 

Baldwin Park

Bald win Park a city in southwestern California, east of Los Angeles; pop. 77,380 (est. 2008 ).