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Any person who is as innocent or gentle as a lamb.

A name given to several plants of the Goosefoot family, sometimes used as pot herbs, as Chenopodium album and Atriplex patulsa.

A feast at the time of shearing lambs.

To beat severely. [Low] Nares.

Taken by licking with the tongue. "Sirups and lambative medicines." Sir T. Browne.

The point of junction of the sagittal and lambdoid sutures of the skull. Lambda moth (Zoöl.), a moth so called from a mark on its wings, resembling the Greek letter lambda (

A fault in speaking or in composition, which consists in too frequent use of the letter l, or in doubling it erroneously.

Shaped like the Greek letter lambda (as, the lambdoid suture between the occipital and parietal bones of the skull.

Same as Lambdoid.

Playing on the surface; touching lightly; gliding over. "A lambent flame." Dryden. "A lambent style." Beaconsfield.

The gigantic sugar pine of California and Oregon (Pinus Lambertiana). It has the leaves in fives, and cones a foot long. The timber is soft, and like that of the white pine of the Eastern States.

A small American ericaceous shrub (Kalmia angustifolia); -- called also calfkill, sheepkill, sheep laurel, etc. It is supposed to poison sheep and other animals that eat it at times when the snow is deep and they cannot find other food.

A small lamb.

Like a lamb; gentle; meek; inoffensive.

Same as Base, n., 19.

A kind of pendent scarf or covering attached to the helmet, to protect it from wet or heat.

The skin of a lamb; especially, a skin dressed with the wool on, and used as a mat. Also used adjectively.

See Lansquenet.

A fragrant wood; agalloch.

wood, of a dusky or mottled color, of a light, friable texture, and less fragrant than calambac; -- used by cabinetmakers.