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

A male lamb of the first year is called a ewe-lamb, and the female a wether-lamb; the second year it is called a wether, and the female a heave. 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 Lamb, a kind of mofl, 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; so called from a supposed resemblance in shape to that animal. It has something like four feet, and its body is covered with a kind of down. Travellers report that it will suffer no vegetable to grow within a certain distance of its seat. Sir Hans Sloane read a memoir upon this plant before the Society; for which those who think it worth while may consult their Transactions, No. 245, p. 461. Mr Bell, in his "Account of a Journey from St Peterburgh to Ispahan," informs us that he searched in vain for this plant in the neighbourhood of Astrachan, when at the same time the more sensible and experienced amongst the Tartars treated the whole history as fabulous. See Plate CCLIX.