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; 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.

One who bleats; a sheep. In cold, stiff soils the bleaters oft complain Of gouty ails. Dyer.

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

having knowledge derived from books. [Often in a disparaging sense.] Whate'er these book-learned blockheads say, Solon's the veriest fool in all the play. Dryden.

Having broad, or relatively broad, leaves. Keats.

A tree (Terminalia latifolia) of Jamaica, the wood of which is used for boards, scantling, shingles, etc; -- sometimes called the almond tree, from the shape of its fruit.

Car miles collectively.

y-colored; blue; azure. Cowper. Blue, blue, as if that sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall. Bryant.

Of or pertaining to Chile.

Same as Monkey-puzzle.

A jacket or outer covering of wood, etc., to prevent radiation of heat, as from the boiler, cylinder. etc., of a steam engine.

Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes.

See Clear-cut.

With well-proportioned, unblemished limbs; as, a clean-limbed young fellow. Dickens.

Well-propotioned; symmetrical. [Poetic] Shak.

One who, or that which, cleans.

The act of making clean.

In a cleanly manner.

State of being cleanly; neatness of person or dress. Cleanliness from head to heel. Swift.

Habitually clean; pure; innocent. "Cleanly joys." Glanvill. Some plain but cleanly country maid. Dryden. Displays her cleanly platter on the board. Goldsmith.