Definition of Lamb

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Definition of Lamb

Lamb

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.

To bring forth a lamb or lambs, as sheep.

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Lamb Quotations

I know the crew so well, so I forget I'm being filmed. It's like cooking with a friend in the kitchen - you're talking, as you do, and maybe you're telling her about this wonderful way to prepare lamb chops - it's more natural, more honest.
Nigella Lawson

I was the youngest. The yule lamb. The one who always got away without doing the washing up. My sister was four years older, and my brother six years.
Jeremy Irons

It's long been a cliche in Washington that if you hang a lamb chop in your window, guests will come.
Suzanne Fields

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
Laurence Sterne

The wolf always charges the lamb with muddying the stream.
Elihu Root

Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.
Matthew Henry

To see how Christ was prophesied and described therein, consider and mark, how that the kid or lamb must be with out spot or blemish; and so was Christ only of all mankind, in the sight of God and of his law.
William Tyndale

An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.
George Chapman

Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.
Samuel Gompers

In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.
John Owen

Lamb Translations

lamb in Afrikaans is lam
lamb in Danish is lam
lamb in Dutch is lamsvlees
lamb in French is agneau
lamb in German is Lamm
lamb in Italian is agnello
lamb in Norwegian is lam, lamme
lamb in Portuguese is cordeiro
lamb in Spanish is cordero
lamb in Swedish is lamm

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