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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

... at the Ghyll that evening. First came the feasting in the old kitchen: huge rounds of beef, quarters of lamb, pease, and sweet puddings and pies. Then came the dancing in the barn, lighted by candles in cloven sticks, and lanterns of turnips that were ...

— A Son of Hagar - A Romance of Our Time • Sir Hall Caine

... flesh and an intrusive world, shall cease. 'They shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the Lord; at that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord.' There shall be no temple in that great city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the Temple thereof. So all external worship is a prophecy of the coming of the perfect time, when that which is perfect being come, the external helps and ladders to climb to the loftiest ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) • Alexander Maclaren

... Nor how Cousin Jehoiakim, aroused from his meditation by the glare of light, starting up, cast his eyes upon Mercy, the stout serving maiden, and bearer of that same precious porcelain—for which my dear mother's reverence was as great, every whit, as that of Charles Lamb's for old China; and how the next moment the waiter was in the hands of my six feet seven and a-half cousin, with "Du let me help you, young woman!" and how the next instant the six feet seven and a-half formed a horizontal line with the floor, instead ...

— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 • Various

... without the aid of the newspapers, the people who really care for literature or art, or for strenuous mental exercise of any kind, are relatively few. If we could procure a completely confidential statement of the number of persons to whom the names of Charles Lamb and Gainsborough have a distinct meaning, and still more of those who can summon up an impression of the essays of the one and of the pictures of the other, we should in all probability be painfully startled. Yet since these names enjoy ...

— Some Diversions of a Man of Letters • Edmund William Gosse

... than one nefarious transaction that would not bear the light of day. He had taken the place in Wardour street within the past five years, and prior to that time he had held a responsible position as purchasing agent—there was not a better judge of pictures in Europe—with the well-known firm of Lamb and Drummond, art dealers and engravers to ...

— In Friendship's Guise • Wm. Murray Graydon

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