Definitions for LAMBlæm

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

lamblæm(n.)

a young sheep.
Category: Animal Husbandry
the meat of a young sheep.
a person who is gentle or innocent.
a person who is easily outsmarted.
the Lamb, Christ.
(v.i.)to give birth to a lamb.

Origin of lamb:

bef. 900; ME, OE, c. OS, OHG, ON, Go lamb

Lamblæm(n.)

Charles (“Elia”), 1775–1834, English essayist and critic.
Category: Biography
Willis E(ugene), Jr., born 1913, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1955.
Category: Biography

Princeton's WordNet

lamb(noun)
young sheep
Lamb, Charles Lamb, Elia(noun)
English essayist (1775-1834)
lamb(noun)
a person easily deceived or cheated (especially in financial matters)
lamb, dear(noun)
a sweet innocent mild-mannered person (especially a child)
lamb(verb)
the flesh of a young domestic sheep eaten as food
lamb(verb)
give birth to a lamb
"the ewe lambed"

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

lamb(noun)æm
a young sheep or the meat from this animal
roast lamb

Wiktionary

lamb(Noun)
A young sheep, of up to one year of age.
lamb(Noun)
The flesh of a lamb used as food.
lamb(Noun)
A person who is meek, docile and easily led.
lamb(Verb)
Of a sheep, to give birth.
lamb(Verb)
To assist (sheep) to give birth.
The shepherd was up all night, lambing her young ewes.

Origin: lamb, from lambaz (compare Dutch lam, German Lamm, Swedish lamm), from h₁l̥h₁onbʰos (compare Scottish Gaelic lon ‘elk’, Ancient Greek ‘red deer’), enlargement of . More at elk.

Webster Dictionary

Lamb(noun)
the young of the sheep
Lamb(noun)
any person who is as innocent or gentle as a lamb
Lamb(noun)
a simple, unsophisticated person; in the cant of the Stock Exchange, one who ignorantly speculates and is victimized
Lamb(verb)
to bring forth a lamb or lambs, as sheep