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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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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]: | |
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Bleating \Bleat"ing\, a. Crying as a sheep does. Then came the shepherd back with his bleating flocks from the seaside. --Longfellow. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Bleating \Bleat"ing\, n. The cry of, or as of, a sheep. --Chapman. | |
