Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LAMB, n. [lam; Goth. lamb; Sax. lamb; D. Dan. lam; G. lamm; Sw. lamb. The letter b is casual and useless. I suspect the word to signify a shoot, as in other cases of the young of animals, from a root which is retained in the Welsh llamu, to bound, to skip.]

1. The young of the sheep kind.
2. The Lamb of God, in Scripture, the Savior Jesus Christ, who was typified by the paschal lamb. Behold the lamb of God, who taketh away the sins of the world. John 1.