Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Lamb

Lamb , noun

[Anglo-Saxon lamb; akin to Dutch & Danish lam, German & Swedish lamm, Old Saxon, Gothic, & Icelandic lamb.]

1.
(Zoology) The young of the sheep.
2.
Any person who is as innocent or gentle as a lamb.
3.
A simple, unsophisticated person; in the cant of the Stock Exchange, one who ignorantly speculates and is victimized.
The twelve apostles of the Lamb. — Rev. xxi. 14
Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. — John i. 29

Lamb , intransitive verb

To bring forth a lamb or lambs, as sheep.