n. One who bleats; a sheep. [ 1913 Webster ]

In cold, stiff soils the bleaters oft complain
Of gouty ails. Dyer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Bleated; p. pr. & vb. n. Bleating. ] [ OE. bleten, AS. bl&unr_;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. [ 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 ]

n. A plaintive cry of, or like that of, a sheep. [ 1913 Webster ]

The bleat of fleecy sheep. Chapman's Homer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Crying as a sheep does. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then came the shepherd back with his bleating flocks from the seaside. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The cry of, or as of, a sheep. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]