BLEATING

Verb

bleating

present participle of bleat

Noun

bleating (plural bleatings)

A noise that bleats.

Inane or plaintive chatter.

Anagrams

• belating, tangible

Source: Wiktionary

Bleat"ing, a.

Definition: Crying as a sheep does. Then came the shepherd back with his bleating flocks from the seaside. Longfellow.

Bleat"ing, n.

Definition: The cry of, or as of, a sheep. Chapman.

BLEAT

Bleat, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bleated; p. pr. & vb. n. Bleating.] Etym: [OE. bleten, AS. bl; akin to D. blaten, bleeten, OHG. blazan, plazan; prob. of imitative origin.]

Definition: 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.

Bleat, n.

Definition: A plaintive cry of, or like that of, a sheep. The bleat of fleecy sheep. Chapman's Homer.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition