Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bleat"
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[=a]zan, pl[=a]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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
bleat
n : the sound of sheep or goats (or any sound resembling this)
v 1: talk whiningly
2: cry plaintively; "The lambs were bleating" [syn: {blate}, {blat},
{baa}]
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