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presentation of a mantle, or the drapery behind and around a coat of arms: -- called also lambrequin.

To signify; to indicate; to import; to denote. What mean these seven ewe lambs Gen. xxi. 29. Go ye, and learn what that me. Matt. ix. 13.

To perplex; to confuse. [Prov. Eng.] Lamb.

The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Mort cloth, the pall spread over a coffin; black cloth indicative or mourning; funeral hangings. Carlyle. -- Mort stone, a large stone by the wayside on which the bearers rest a coffin. [Eng.] H. Taylor.

Blackness; the state of being black. Lamb.

he nose; to push the nose into or against; hence, to interfere with; to treat insolently. Lambs . . . nosing the mother's udder. Tennyson. A sort of national convention, dubious in its nature . . . nosed Parliament in the very seat of its authority. Burke.

Possessing only small coins; impoverished. [R.] Lamb.

e. In those days were pit orders -- beshrew the uncomfortable manager who abolished them. Lamb.

To outgo; to move faster than; to leave behind. [R.] Lamb.

of victory or rejoicing. A great multitude . . . stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palme in their hands. Rev. vii. 9.

the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States; as, the Pan-Anglican Conference at Lambeth, in 1888.

The character or performances of a pantaloon; buffoonery. [R.] Lamb.

The skin of a lamb, sheep, goat, young calf, or other animal, prepared for writing on. See Vellum. But here's a parchment with the seal of Cæsar. Shak.

Colored with different tints; variegated; as, a party-colored flower. "Parti-colored lambs." Shak.

Of or pertaining to the passover, or to Easter; as, a paschal lamb; paschal eggs. Longfellow. Paschal candle (R. C. Ch.), a large wax candle, blessed and placed on the altar on Holy Saturday, or the day before Easter. -- Paschal flower. See Pasque flower, under Pasque.

Egyptians, passed over the houses of the Israelites which were marked with the blood of a lamb.

A cade lamb; a lamb brought up by hand.

A name of several annual weeds. See Goosefoot, and Lamb's- quarters.

A sweet white crystalline substance extracted from the gum of a species of pine (Pinus Lambertina). It is isomeric with, and resembles, quercite.

e sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot. As Cannace was playing in her walk. Chaucer. The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play! Pope. And some, the darlings of their Lord, Play smiling with the flame and sword. Keble.