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Noun: lamb  lam
  1. Young sheep
     
  2. A person easily deceived or cheated (especially in financial matters)
     
  3. A sweet innocent mild-mannered person (especially a child)
    - dear
     
  4. The flesh of a young domestic sheep eaten as food
Verb: lamb  lam
  1. Give birth to a lamb
    "the ewe lambed"
     
  2. Attend to sheep giving birth
Noun: Lamb  lam
  1. English essayist (1775-1834)
    - Charles Lamb, Elia

Sounds like: lamas, llalamb

Derived forms: lambs, lambing, lambed

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

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

Encyclopedia: Lamb, Kentucky