Bleat·ing, a. Crying as a sheep does.
Then came the shepherd back with his bleating flocks from the seaside. --Longfellow.
Bleat·ing, n. The cry of, or as of, a sheep.
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Bleat v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bleated; p. pr. & vb. n. Bleating.] 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.