lamb: Meaning and Definition of

lamb

1. a young sheep.
2. the meat of a young sheep.
3. a person who is gentle, meek, innocent, etc.: Their little daughter is such a lamb.
4. a person who is easily cheated or outsmarted, esp. an inexperienced speculator.
5. Christ.

1. to give birth to a lamb.

Lamb

1. (“Elia”), 1775–1834, English essayist and critic.
2. 1892–1962, U.S. novelist.
3. 1764–1847, English author who wrote in collaboration with her brother Charles Lamb.
4. 1779–1848, English statesman: prime minister 1834, 1835–41.
5. born 1913, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1955.