2nd viscount melbourne william lamb

[lam] /læm/
noun
charles (“elia”) 1775–1834, english essayist and critic.
harold a. 1892–1962, u.s. novelist.
mary ann, 1764–1847, english author who wrote in collaboration with her brother charles lamb.
william, 2nd viscount melbourne, 1779–1848, english statesman: prime minister 1834, 1835–41.
willis e(ugene), jr. 1913–2008, u.s. physicist: n-bel prize 1955.
lamb
/læm/
noun
the young of a sheep
the meat of a young sheep
a person, esp a child, who is innocent, meek, good, etc
a person easily deceived
like a lamb to the slaughter

without resistance
innocently

verb
(intransitive) also lamb down. (of a ewe) to give birth
(transitive; used in the p-ssive) (of a lamb) to be born
(intransitive) (of a shepherd) to tend the ewes and newborn lambs at lambing time
see also lamb down
derived forms
lamblike, adjective
word origin
old english lamb, from germanic; compare german lamm, old high german and old norse lamb
lamb1
/læm/
noun
the lamb, a t-tle given to christ in the new testament
lamb2
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charles, pen name elia. 1775–1834, english essayist and critic. he collaborated with his sister mary on tales from shakespeare (1807). his other works include specimens of english dramatic poets (1808) and the largely autobiographical essays collected in essays of elia (1823; 1833)
william. see (2nd viscount) melbourne2
willis eugene. 1913–2008, us physicist. he detected the small difference in energy between two states of the hydrogen atom (lamb shift). n-bel prize for physics 1955
lamb
n.

old english lamb “lamb,” from proto-germanic -lambaz (cf. old norse, old frisian, gothic lamb, middle dutch, dutch lam, middle high german lamp, german lamm “lamb”). common to the germanic languages, but with no certain cognates outside them. old english plural was lomberu. applied to persons (especially young church members, gentle souls, etc.) from late old english. also sometimes used ironically for cruel or rough characters (e.g. kirke’s lambs in wars of 1684-86). lamb’s-wool (adj.) is from 1550s.
noun

a dear, sweet person: mary is such a lamb (1923+)

(1.) heb. kebes, a male lamb from the first to the third year. offered daily at the morning and the evening sacrifice (ex. 29:38-42), on the sabbath day (num. 28:9), at the feast of the new moon (28:11), of trumpets (29:2), of tabernacles (13-40), of pentecost (lev. 23:18-20), and of the p-ssover (ex. 12:5), and on many other occasions (1 chr. 29:21; 2 chr. 29:21; lev. 9:3; 14:10-25). (2.) heb. taleh, a young sucking lamb (1 sam. 7:9; isa. 65:25). in the symbolical language of scripture the lamb is the type of meekness and innocence (isa. 11:6; 65:25; luke 10:3; john 21:15). the lamb was a symbol of christ (gen. 4:4; ex. 12:3; 29:38; isa. 16:1; 53:7; john 1:36; rev. 13:8). christ is called the lamb of g-d (john 1:29, 36), as the great sacrifice of which the former sacrifices were only types (num. 6:12; lev. 14:12-17; isa. 53:7; 1 cor. 5:7).

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