lamb

noun8

1. •
   a sheep that is still very young, usually less than nine months old

   • 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.
2. •
   The flesh of a lamb used as food; (sometimes loosely) the flesh of a sheep of any age used as food.
3. •
   (figurative) A person who is meek, docile, and easily led.
4. •
   A simple, unsophisticated person.
5. •
   (slang) One who ignorantly speculates on the stock exchange and is victimized.
6. •
   Lambskin.

   • They were as alike as prisoners, dressed in black silk waists and fitted skirts, with shawls of crimped black lamb across their shoulders. — 1934
7. •
   (slang) A fan of American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer Mariah Carey (born 1969).

   • Part of me revels in the campiness of Mariah’s butterfly metaphors and puppies-and-kittens existence. […] But I also genuinely love her music, including this album. I’m one of her lambs. — 2003
8. •
   (no longer used) A young goat; a kid.

   • The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1611, →OCLC, Exodus 12:5: “Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:”

verb2

1. •
   Of a sheep, to give birth.
2. •
   To assist (sheep) to give birth.

   • The shepherd was up all night, lambing her young ewes.

noun1

1. •
   Acronym of lentigines, atrial myxomas, mucocutaneous myxomas, and blue naevi.