1. [n]  young sheep
2. [n]  the flesh of a young domestic sheep eaten as food
3. [n]  a sweet innocent mild-mannered person (especially a child)
4. [n]  a person easily deceived or cheated (especially in financial matters)
5. [n]  English essayist (1775-1834)
6. [v]  give birth to a lamb, of ewes

1. \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.
   
   

2. \Lamb\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Lambed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Lambing}.]
   To bring forth a lamb or lambs, as sheep.
   
   

(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).