'Bleating' definitions:
Definition of 'Bleating'
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- Bleating \Bleat"ing\, a. Crying as a sheep does. [1913 Webster]
- Then came the shepherd back with his bleating flocks from the seaside. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bleating'
From: GCIDE
- Bleating \Bleat"ing\, n. The cry of, or as of, a sheep. --Chapman. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bleating'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Then suddenly was heard along the main, To low the ox, to bleat the woolly train. --Pope [1913 Webster]
- The ewe that will not hear her lamb when it baas, will never answer a calf when he bleats. --Shak. [1913 Webster]