in zoology, the young of the sheep-kind. See Ovis.

A male lamb of the first year is called a wedder-beg, and the female a ewe-beg; the second year it is called a wedder, and the female a sheare. If a lamb be sick, mare's milk with water may be given it; and by blowing into the mouth, many have been recovered, after appearing dead. The best season for weaning them is when they are 16 or 18 weeks old, and about Michaelmas. The males should be separated from the females, and such males as are not designed for rams, gelded. "Lamb, (says Dr Cullen), appears a more fibrous kind of meat, and upon that account is less easily soluble than veal. In Scotland, house-lamb is never reared to advantage."

Scythian Scythian Lamb, a kind of moss, which grows about the roots of fern in some of the northern parts of Europe and Asia, and sometimes assumes the form of a quadruped. See Plate CLVIII. fig. 8. A particular description of it may be seen in Philof. Trans. No. 398.