lamb
[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. |
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. |
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| 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. |
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Lamb
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.Cite This Source
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(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).
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