lamb
/ˈlæm/ noun B1- A young sheep; especially, one younger than nine months. · Mary had a little lamb, its fleece as white as snow.· Mark and Mark have raised some lambs for market, and they won a blue ribbon for quality at the fair.
- The flesh of a lamb used as food; (sometimes loosely) the flesh of a sheep of any age used as food.
- A person who is meek, docile, and easily led. · Near-synonym: sheep
- Lambskin.
- A simple, unsophisticated person.
- One who ignorantly speculates on the stock exchange and is victimized.
- A fan of American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer Mariah Carey (born 1969).
Plural lambs
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## The Wolf And The Lamb
WOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf’s right to eat him.
He thus addressed him: “Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me.” “Indeed,” bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, “I was not then born.” Then said the Wolf, “You feed in my pasture.” “No, good sir,” replied the Lamb, “I have not yet tasted grass.” Again said the Wolf, “You drink of my well.” “No,” exclaimed the Lamb, “I never yet drank water, for as yet my mother’s milk is both food and drink to me.” Upon which the Wolf seized him and ate him up, saying, “Well!
During his reign he made a royal proclamation for a general assembly of all the birds and beasts, and drew up conditions for a universal league, in which the Wolf and the Lamb, the Panther and the Kid, the Tiger and the Stag, the Dog and the Hare, should live together in perfect peace and amity.
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