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The Lamb (gcide) | Lamb \Lamb\, n. [AS. lamb; akin to D. & Dan. lam, G. & Sw. lamm,
OS., Goth., & Icel. lamb.]
1. (Zool.) The young of the sheep.
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2. Any person who is as innocent or gentle as a lamb.
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3. A simple, unsophisticated person; in the cant of the Stock
Exchange, one who ignorantly speculates and is victimized.
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Lamb of God, The Lamb (Script.), the Jesus Christ, in
allusion to the paschal lamb.
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The twelve apostles of the Lamb. --Rev. xxi.
14.
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Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of
the world. --John i. 29.
Lamb's lettuce (Bot.), an annual plant with small obovate
leaves (Valerianella olitoria), often used as a salad;
corn salad. [Written also lamb lettuce.]
Lamb's tongue, a carpenter's plane with a deep narrow bit,
for making curved grooves. --Knight.
Lamb's wool.
(a) The wool of a lamb.
(b) Ale mixed with the pulp of roasted apples; -- probably
from the resemblance of the pulp of roasted apples to
lamb's wool. [Obs.] --Goldsmith.
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talk the leg off the lamb of god (encz) | talk the leg off the lamb of God, |
knights of the lambda-calculus (foldoc) | Knights of the Lambda-Calculus
A semi-mythical organisation of wizardly LISP and Scheme
hackers. The name refers to a mathematical formalism invented
by Alonzo Church, with which LISP is intimately connected.
There is no enrollment list and the criteria for induction are
unclear, but one well-known LISPer has been known to give out
buttons and, in general, the *members* know who they are.
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knights of the lambda calculus (jargon) | Knights of the Lambda Calculus
n.
A semi-mythical organization of wizardly LISP and Scheme hackers. The name
refers to a mathematical formalism invented by Alonzo Church, with which
LISP is intimately connected. There is no enrollment list and the criteria
for induction are unclear, but one well-known LISPer has been known to give
out buttons and, in general, the members know who they are....
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