LAMB • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Lamb

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/læm/ Listen

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.

See images of 'Lamb'

Etymology of 'Lamb'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"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

More quotes...