lambkin

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  1. A little lamb. In the warm folds their tender lambkins lie. Dryden, tr. of Ovid's Metamorph., xiii.
  2. One treated as gently as a lamb; one fondly cherished. Sir John, thy tender lambkin now is king; Harry the Fifth's the man. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., v. 3.122.

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  • Thou art my tender lambkin, and shalt do what thou wilt. —  The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2]
  • Then you and yours can come opportunely up, too late for protecting the old ram and dam, but in time to rescue the bleating lambkin, and bear her away to a place of safety. —  Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco
  • By the way, the lambkin is thriving and we've named it after you--Netty What? —  Dorothy on a Ranch
  • The study of music at this period may thus result in marked benefit to the physical health in a perfectly natural manner: for to forbid any expression to these emotions would be much as if we forbade a canary to sing or a lambkin to jump. —  Spirit and Music
  • It might have been a woolly dog, or a black lambkin, and it was lying perfectly still I pulled aside the curtains and stood between them, and the scene stamped itself upon my brain, as clear as a photographic print, for ever The woolly beast was the fur cap of a dead man who lay across the floor of the little room. —  Jacqueline of Golden River
 

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  1. = D. and Flemish lammeken; as lamb + -kin.
 

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