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Webster 1913 Edition

Bleat

Bleat

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Bleated
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Bleating
.]
[OE.
bleten
, AS.
bl[GREEK]tan
; akin to D.
blaten
,
bleeten
, OHG.
blāzan
,
plāzan
; 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
.
Shakespeare

Bleat

,
Noun.
A plaintive cry of, or like that of, a sheep.
The
bleat
of fleecy sheep.
Chapman’s Homer.

Webster 1828 Edition

Bleat

BLEAT

,
Verb.
I.
[L. blatero; plaudo.] To make the noise of a sheep; to cry as a sheep.

BLEAT

,
Noun.
The cry of a sheep.

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