bleat : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: bleat	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for bleat
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bleat n the sound of sheep or goats (or any sound resembling this) v talk whiningly cry plaintively; "The lambs were bleating" Synonym(s): bleat, blate, blat, baa
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bleat \Bleat\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Bleated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bleating}.] [OE. bleten, AS. bl[?]tan; akin to D. blaten, bleeten, OHG. bl[be]zan, pl[be]zan; prob. of imitative origin.] To make the noise of, or one like that of, a sheep; to cry like a sheep or calf. Then suddenly was heard along the main, To low the ox, to bleat the woolly train. --Pope The ewe that will not hear her lamb when it baas, will never answer a calf when he bleats. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bleat \Bleat\, n. A plaintive cry of, or like that of, a sheep. The bleat of fleecy sheep. --Chapman's Homer.