lamb : Idioms & Phrases

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baa-lamb

  • noun child's word for a sheep or lamb
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breast of lamb

  • noun a cut of lamb including the breastbone and attached muscles dressed as meat
    poitrine d'agneau.
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charles lamb

  • noun English essayist (1775-1834)
    Lamb; Elia.
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cut of lamb

  • noun cut of meat from a lamb
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Grass lamb

  • a lamb suckled by a dam running on pasture land and giving rich milk.
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lamb chop

  • noun chop cut from a lamb
    lambchop; lamb chop.
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lamb curry

  • noun curry made with lamb
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Lamb of God, The Lamb

  • (Script.), the Jesus Christ, in allusion to the paschal lamb.
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lamb roast

  • noun a cut of lamb suitable for roasting
    lamb roast.
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lamb succory

  • noun small European herb with small yellow flowers
    Arnoseris minima; dwarf nipplewort.
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Lamb's lettuce

  • noun widely cultivated as a salad crop and pot herb; often a weed
    Valerianella olitoria; common corn salad; Valerianella locusta.
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  • (Bot.), an annual plant with small obovate leaves (Valerianella olitoria), often used as a salad; corn salad. Written also lamb lettuce.
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Lamb's tongue

  • a carpenter's plane with a deep narrow bit, for making curved grooves. Knight.
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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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lamb's-quarter

  • noun leaves collected from the wild
    pigweed; wild spinach; lamb's-quarter.
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lamb's-quarters

  • noun common weedy European plant introduced into North America; often used as a potherb
    pigweed; wild spinach; Chenopodium album.
  • noun leaves collected from the wild
    pigweed; wild spinach; lamb's-quarter.
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Lamb's-quar"ters noun
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  1. (Bot.) A name given to several plants of the Goosefoot family, sometimes used as pot herbs, as Chenopodium album and Atriplex patulsa.
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lamb-chop

  • noun chop cut from a lamb
    lambchop; lamb chop.
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leg of lamb

  • noun lamb leg suitable for roasting
    gigot.
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loin of lamb

  • noun meat from a loin of lamb
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paschal lamb

  • noun figure of a lamb; emblematic of Christ
    Agnus Dei.
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persian lamb

  • noun the fur of a karakul lamb
  • noun a karakul lamb
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rack of lamb

  • noun a roast of the rib section of lamb
    crown roast.
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roast lamb

  • noun a cut of lamb suitable for roasting
    lamb roast.
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saddle of lamb

  • noun backbone and both loins of a lamb
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Scythian lamb

  • noun Asiatic tree fern having dense matted hairs sometimes used as a styptic
    Cibotium barometz.
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  • . (Bot.) See Barometz.
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Tartarian lamb

  • (Bot.), Scythian lamb. See Barometz.
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