| lamb | (n) young sheep |
| lamb | (n) English essayist (1775-1834), Syn. Elia, Charles Lamb |
| lamb | (n) a person easily deceived or cheated (especially in financial matters) |
| lamb | (n) a sweet innocent mild-mannered person (especially a child), Syn. dear |
| lamb | (n) the flesh of a young domestic sheep eaten as food |
| lamb | (v) give birth to a lamb, Example: the ewe lambed |
| lamb chop | (n) chop cut from a lamb, Syn. lambchop, lamb-chop |
| lamb curry | (n) curry made with lamb |
| lambda | (n) the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet |
| lambda | (n) the craniometric point at the junction of the sagittal and lamboid sutures of the skull |
| Lamb | v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Lambed p. pr. & vb. n. Lambing. ] To bring forth a lamb or lambs, as sheep. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Lamb | n. [ AS. lamb; akin to D. & Dan. lam, G. & Sw. lamm, OS., Goth., & Icel. lamb. ] 1. (Zool.) The young of the sheep. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Any person who is as innocent or gentle as a lamb. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. A simple, unsophisticated person; in the cant of the Stock Exchange, one who ignorantly speculates and is victimized. [ 1913 Webster ]
Lamb of God,
The Lamb (Script.), the Jesus Christ, in allusion to the paschal lamb. [ 1913 Webster ] The twelve apostles of the Lamb. Rev. xxi. 14. [ 1913 Webster ] Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. John i. 29. --
Lamb's lettuce (Bot.), an annual plant with small obovate leaves (Valerianella olitoria), often used as a salad; corn salad. [ Written also lamb lettuce. ] --
Lamb's tongue, a carpenter's plane with a deep narrow bit, for making curved grooves. Knight. --
Lamb's wool. (a) The wool of a lamb. (b) Ale mixed with the pulp of roasted apples; -- probably from the resemblance of the pulp of roasted apples to lamb's wool. [ Obs. ] Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]
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| Lambale | n. A feast at the time of shearing lambs. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| lambast | v. t. Same as lambaste. [ WordNet 1.5 ] |
| Lambaste | v. t. [ Lam + baste to beat. ] To beat severely; specifically, to beat with a cane. [ Low ] Nares.
Syn. -- cane, flog, lambaste. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ] 2. to scold, reprimand, or berate harshly.
Syn. -- rebuke, rag, reproof, reprimand, jaw, dress down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, jaw at, remonstrate with, chew out, chew up, have words with, lambast. [ WordNet 1.5 ] |
| Lambative | n. A medicine taken by licking with the tongue; a lincture. Wiseman. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Lambative | a. [ L. lambere to lick. See Lambent. ] Taken by licking with the tongue. “Sirups and lambative medicines.” Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Lambda | ‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. la`mbda. ] 1. The name of the Greek letter Λ, λ, corresponding with the English letter L, l. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. (Anat.) The point of junction of the sagittal and lambdoid sutures of the skull. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. (Phys.) A subatomic particle carrying no charge, having a mass equal to 2183 times that of an electron; it decays rapidly, typically forming a nucleon and a pion. MW10 [ PJC ]
Lambda moth (Zool.), a moth so called from a mark on its wings, resembling the Greek letter lambda (Λ). [ 1913 Webster ]
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| Lambdacism | n. [ L. lambdacismus, Gr. &unr_;, fr. la`mbda the letter lambda (Λ). ] 1. A fault in speaking or in composition, which consists in too frequent use of the letter l, or in doubling it erroneously. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. A defect in pronunciation of the letter l when doubled, which consists in giving it a sound as if followed by y, similar to that of the letters lli in billion. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. The use of the sound of l for that of r in pronunciation; lallation; as, Amelican for American. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Lambdoid | a. [ Gr. &unr_;, la`mbda the letter lambda (Λ) + e"i^dos shape.] Shaped like the Greek letter lambda (Λ); as, the lambdoid suture between the occipital and parietal bones of the skull. [1913 Webster] |
