in Zoology, the young of the sheep kind. See Ovis, Mammalia Index.

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; 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 feet. Sir Hans Sloane read a memoir upon this plant before the Society; for which those who think it worth while may consult their Transactions, Lambert, in his "Account of a Journey from St Peterburgh to Hipahan," informs us that he searched in vain for this plant in the neighbourhood of Altaiacum, when at the same time the more sensible and experienced amongst the Tartars treated the whole history as fabulous.