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Entry 4 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Lamb

/lăm/ · IPA /læm/
01 n. The young of the sheep.
  1. 1.
    The young of the sheep.(Zool.)
  2. 2.
    Any person who is as innocent or gentle as a lamb.
  3. 3.
    A simple, unsophisticated person; in the cant of the Stock Exchange, one who ignorantly speculates and is victimized.
    “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.
02 v. i. To bring forth a lamb or lambs, as sheep.
imp. & p. p. Lambed; p. pr. & vb. n. Lambing
  1. 1.
    To bring forth a lamb or lambs, as sheep.