资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

Bleating \Bleat"ing\, a.
   Crying as a sheep does.

         Then came the shepherd back with his bleating flocks
         from the seaside.                        --Longfellow.

Bleating \Bleat"ing\, n.
   The cry of, or as of, a sheep. --Chapman.