a. Like a lamb, or that of a lamb; gentle, meek.
1599. ? Kyd, Soliman & Perseda, I. A 4. Put Lambe-like mildenes to your Lyons strength.
1616. R. Sheldon, Surv. Miracles Ch. Rome, 161. What else doth the beast … portend by his lambe-like hornes but Anti-christ?
1621. Quarles, Esther (1638), 105. Thy Lamb-like Countenance so faire, so meeke.
a. 1711. Ken, Sion, Poet. Wks. 1721, IV. 334. With perves of Lambs, Soul, string your Lute, They’ll best with Lamb-like Agnes sute.
1840. Mrs. Carlyle, Lett., I. 119. I am very lamb-like to-day.
1843. Carlyle, Past & Pr., I. iii. (1845), 19. Whal a lamblike Insurrection!
