1. Young sheep
   "The lambs frolicked in the spring meadow"
    
2. A person easily deceived or cheated (especially in financial matters)
   "The con artist saw the wealthy widow as a lamb ripe for fleecing"
    
3. A sweet innocent mild-mannered person (especially a child)
   "The teacher described the new student as a perfect lamb";
   - dear
    
4. The flesh of a young domestic sheep eaten as food
   "They served roast lamb with mint sauce"

1. Give birth to a lamb
   "the ewe lambed"
    
2. Attend to sheep giving birth
   "The shepherd lambed through the night"

1. English essayist (1775-1834)
   - Charles Lamb, Elia

Sounds like: lamas, llalamb

Derived forms: lambing, lambs, lambed

Type of: bear, birth, deliver, dupe, essayist, give birth, have, innocent, littérateur, meat, victim, young mammal

Part of: domestic sheep, genus Ovis, Ovis, Ovis aries

Encyclopedia: Lamb, Kentucky