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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
bark, bawl, bay, beef, bell, bellow, bellyache, bitch, blare, blat, blate, blow off, bray, call, caterwaul, crab, cry, fuss, give tongue, give voice, howl, low, meow, mew, mewl, miaow, moo, neigh, nicker, pule, roar, screak, scream, screech, squall, squawk, squeak, squeal, troat, ululate, wail, whicker, whine, whinny, yammer, yap, yawl, yawp, yelp, yip, yowl
Dictionary Results for bleat:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
bleat
    n 1: the sound of sheep or goats (or any sound resembling this)
    v 1: talk whiningly
    2: cry plaintively; "The lambs were bleating" [syn: bleat,
       blate, blat, baa]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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         Then suddenly was heard along the main,
         To low the ox, to bleat the woolly train. --Pope
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         The ewe that will not hear her lamb when it baas, will
         never answer a calf when he bleats.      --Shak.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Bleat \Bleat\, n.
   A plaintive cry of, or like that of, a sheep.
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         The bleat of fleecy sheep.               --Chapman's
                                                  Homer.
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