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or luminary formed of some combustible substance, as of resinous wood; a large candle or flambeau, or a lamp giving a large, flaring flame. They light the nuptial torch. Milton. Torch thistle. (Bot.) See under Thistle.

A lamb. [Prov. Eng.]

A young or little twin, especially a twin lamb.

Hence, without mother's milk; motherless; as, udderless lambs. [Poetic] Keats.

The office or position of an uncle. Lamb.

To divest of vulgarity; to make to be not vulgar. Lamb.

Face; countenance. [Colloq.] Spenser. Lamb.

, and strip under the first warmth of the sun, and wanton like young dace in the streams! Lamb.

To behave wantonly; to frolic; to wanton. [R.] Lamb.

of ale (or wine) flavored with spices, sugar, toast, roasted apples, etc.; -- called also lamb's wool. A jolly wassail bowl, A wassail of good ale. Old Song.

Australian eagle (Aquila audax) which feeds on various small species of kangaroos, and on lambs; -- called also mountain eagle, bold eagle, and eagle hawk. -- Wedge-tailed gull, an arctic gull (Rhodostethia rosea) in which the plumage is tinged with rose; -- called also Ross's gull.

und that doth hunt us all to death; That dog that had his teeth before his eyes, To worry lambs and lap their gentle blood. Shak.

In heaven ycleped Euphrosyne. Milton. Those charming little missives ycleped valentines. Lamb.

A lamb or a kid; an eanling. Shak.

Be ye not unequally yoked with unbelievers." 2 Cor. vi. 14. Cassius, you are yoked with a lamb. Shak.