[lam] 
| 1. | a young sheep. |
| 2. | the meat of a young sheep. |
| 3. | a person who is gentle, meek, innocent, etc.: Their little daughter is such a lamb. |
| 4. | a person who is easily cheated or outsmarted, esp. an inexperienced speculator. |
| 5. | the Lamb, Christ. |
| 6. | to give birth to a lamb. |
[lam] | 1. | Charles (“Elia” ), 1775–1834, English essayist and critic. |
| 2. | Harold A., 1892–1962, U.S. novelist. |
| 3. | Mary Ann, 1764–1847, English author who wrote in collaboration with her brother Charles Lamb. |
| 4. | William, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, 1779–1848, English statesman: prime minister 1834, 1835–41. |
| 5. | Willis E(ugene), Jr., born 1913, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1955. |
| lamb (lām) n.
To give birth to a young sheep. [Middle English, from Old English.] |
| Lamb, Charles Known as "Elia." 1775-1834. British critic and essayist. With his sister Mary Ann Lamb (1764-1847) he wrote the children's book Tales from Shakespeare (1807). |
| Lamb, William. Second Viscount Melbourne. 1779-1848. British prime minister (1834 and 1835-1841) and adviser to Queen Victoria. |
Lamb
(1.) Heb. kebes, a male lamb from the first to the third year. Offered daily at the morning and the evening sacrifice (Ex. 29:38-42), on the Sabbath day (Num. 28:9), at the feast of the New Moon (28:11), of Trumpets (29:2), of Tabernacles (13-40), of Pentecost (Lev. 23:18-20), and of the Passover (Ex. 12:5), and on many other occasions (1 Chr. 29:21; 2 Chr. 29:21; Lev. 9:3; 14:10-25). (2.) Heb. taleh, a young sucking lamb (1 Sam. 7:9; Isa. 65:25). In the symbolical language of Scripture the lamb is the type of meekness and innocence (Isa. 11:6; 65:25; Luke 10:3; John 21:15). The lamb was a symbol of Christ (Gen. 4:4; Ex. 12:3; 29:38; Isa. 16:1; 53:7; John 1:36; Rev. 13:8). Christ is called the Lamb of God (John 1:29, 36), as the great sacrifice of which the former sacrifices were only types (Num. 6:12; Lev. 14:12-17; Isa. 53:7; 1 Cor. 5:7).
lamb
see hanged for a sheep (as a lamb); in two shakes (of a lamb's tail); like a lamb to the slaughter.