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noun

Lamb n.

(Zool.) The young of the sheep.

Any person who is as innocent or gentle as a lamb.

A simple, unsophisticated person; in the cant of the Stock Exchange, one who ignorantly speculates and is victimized.

Lamb of God, The Lamb (Script.), the Jesus Christ, in allusion to the paschal lamb. "The twelve apostles of the Lamb." "Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world."

Lamb's lettuce (Bot.), an annual plant with small obovate leaves (Valerianella olitoria), often used as a salad; corn salad. (Written also lamb lettuce)

Lamb's tongue, a carpenter's plane with a deep narrow bit, for making curved grooves.

Lamb's wool.

(a)

The wool of a lamb.

(b)

Ale mixed with the pulp of roasted apples; probably from the resemblance of the pulp of roasted apples to lamb's wool. (Obs.)

verb

Lamb v. i. (past & past part. lambed; pres. part. lambing) To bring forth a lamb or lambs, as sheep.

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Etymology of 'Lamb'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lamb" Quotes from Famous Books

... about and faced the speaker. He could hardly believe his ears, his eyes. Was it possible that the haughty Lord Huntingford had fixed upon him as the next lamb to be fleeced? Ugly stories concerning the government emissary's continuous winnings, disastrous losses of the young subalterns inveigled into gambling through fear of his official displeasure, were not unknown to Hugh. A civil declination was on his lips; ...

— Nedra • George Barr McCutcheon

... be very welcome to thousands of admirers and lovers of Charles Lamb. The verses are certainly far superior to most of the poems written ...

— Sara Crewe - or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... Creatures of jarring and incongruous Natures should be joined together in the same Sign; such as the Bell and the Neats-tongue, the Dog and Gridiron. The Fox and Goose may be supposed to have met, but what has the Fox and the Seven Stars to do together? and when did the Lamb [3] and Dolphin ever meet, except upon a Sign-Post? As for the Cat and Fiddle, there is a Conceit in it, and therefore, I do not intend that anything I have here said should affect it. I must however observe to you upon ...

— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele

... so perchance. This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues, Was once thought honest: you have loved him well; He hath not touch'd you yet. I am young; but something You may deserve of him through me; and wisdom To offer up a weak, poor, innocent lamb To appease an ...

— Macbeth • William Shakespeare [Collins edition]

... fool, my boy," he said emphatically, "to go and offer yourself a lamb for the sacrifice!" It did not occur to him that Max was offering himself on the altar of another temple of sacrifice. He thought the young man was "jolly lucky" to escape from the mess he had tumbled into and ...

— A Soldier of the Legion • C. N. Williamson

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