About The Word Lamb
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Lamb
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What's The Definition Of Lamb?
[n] young sheep
[n] the flesh of a young domestic sheep eaten as food [n] a sweet innocent mild-mannered person (especially a child) [n] a person easily deceived or cheated (especially in financial matters) [n] English essayist (1775-1834) [v] give birth to a lamb, of ewes Synonyms | Synonyms for Lamb: Charles Lamb | dear | Elia Related Terms | Find terms related to Lamb: agneau | angel | babe | baby | baby-doll | bairn | bellwether | birdling | breast of lamb | buttercup | calf | catling | cherub | chick | chickabiddy | chickling | chicky | child | child of nature | chit | colt | cub | darling | dear | deary | dogie | doll | dove | duck | duckling | dupe | ewe | ewe lamb | fawn | fledgling | foal | fryer | gigot | gosling | hick | hon | honey | honey bunch | honey child | infant | ingenue | innocent | jambe de mouton | jumbuck | kid | kit | kitten | lambkin | leg of lamb | leg of mutton | litter | little bugger | little fellow | little guy | little innocent | little one | little tad | little tot | lout | love | lover | mere child | mite | mouton | mutton | nest | nestling | newborn babe | nipper | noble savage | oaf | offspring | peewee | pet | petkins | piglet | pigling | polliwog | precious | precious heart | pullet | pup | puppy | ram | rube | saddle of mutton | shaver | sheep | shoat | simple soul | snookums | sugar | sweet | sweetheart | sweetie | sweetkins | sweets | tad | tadpole | teg | tot | tup | unsophisticate | weaner | wee tot | wether | whelp | yeanling | yokel See Also | baa-lamb | bear | birth | cut of lamb | deliver | domestic sheep | dupe | essayist | genus Ovis | give birth | have | hog | hogg | hogget | inexperienced person | innocent | lambkin | litterateur | loin of lamb | meat | Ovis | Ovis aries | Persian lamb | teg | victim | young mammal Lamb In Webster's Dictionary \Lamb\ (l[a^]m), n. [AS. lamb; akin to D. & Dan. lam, G. &
Sw. lamm, OS., Goth., & Icel. lamb.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) The young of the sheep.
2. Any person who is as innocent or gentle as a lamb.
3. 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. --Rev. xxi.
14.
Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of
the world. --John i. 29.
{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. --Knight.
{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.] --Goldsmith.
\Lamb\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Lambed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Lambing}.] To bring forth a lamb or lambs, as sheep. |
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