bold

BOLD, adjective 1. Daring; courageous; brave; intrepid; fearless; applied to men or other animals; as, bold as a lion.2. Requiring courage in the execution; executed with spirit or boldness; planned with courage and spirit; as a bold enterprise.3. Confident; not timorous.We were bold in our God to speak to you. 1 Thessalonians 2:2.4. In an ill sense, rude, forward, impudent.5. Licentious; showing great liberty of fiction or expression; as, the figures of an author are bold 6. Standing out to view; striking to the eye; as bold figures in painting, sculpture and architecture.7. Steep; abrupt; prominent; as a bold shore, which enters the water almost perpendicularly, so that ships can approach near to land without danger.Where the bold cape its warning forehead rears.To make bold to take freedoms; a common, but not a correct phrase. To be bold is better.BOLD, verb transitive To make daring. [Not used.]