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Lamb   /læm/   Listen
Lamb

noun
1.
Young sheep.
2.
English essayist (1775-1834).  Synonyms: Charles Lamb, Elia.
3.
A person easily deceived or cheated (especially in financial matters).
4.
A sweet innocent mild-mannered person (especially a child).  Synonym: dear.
5.
The flesh of a young domestic sheep eaten as food.
verb
(past & past part. lambed; pres. part. lambing)
1.
Give birth to a lamb.



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"Lamb" Quotes from Famous Books



... flee from the allurements of such a host. Old hands know him and have got him on their list, escaping when escape is possible; for he will mate the green youth with the red frump, or like a premature millennium force the lion and the lamb to lie down together, and imagine he has given ...
— The Ways of Men • Eliot Gregory

... think thus; but oftener I ask myself, 'Of what value shall human ties be, or their memories, in His august presence whom to look upon is life? What room shall there be for other affections, what room for other memories, than those of 'the Lamb ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 • Various

... authority in the establishment. He, as well the Doctor, held Mr. Peacocke in great respect, and would have been almost as unwilling as the Doctor himself to tell stories to the schoolmaster's discredit. "They are saying down at the Lamb"—the Lamb was the Bowick public-house—"that Lefroy told them all yesterday——" the Doctor hesitated before ...
— Dr. Wortle's School • Anthony Trollope

... lamb, Or spotted kid, or some more forward steere, And from the paile doth praise their fertile dam; So do they strive in doubt, in hope, in feare, Awaiting for their trusty empire's doome, Faulted as false by him that's overcome. Whether so me lift my lovely thought to ...
— The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) - Volume I. • Theophilus Cibber

... his son! Then Abraham looked around, and there in the thicket was a ram caught by his horns. And Abraham took the ram and offered him up for a burnt-offering in place of his son. So Abraham's words came true when he said that God would provide for himself a lamb. ...
— The Wonder Book of Bible Stories • Compiled by Logan Marshall


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