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▪ I. lambskin, n.|ˈlæmskɪn|
Also lamb's skin.
1. a. The skin or hide of a lamb with the wool on. Proverbial phr. a wolf (or fox) in a lamb's skin. b. The same dressed and used for clothing, for ornamentation of dress, for mats, etc. Often in collect. sing., denoting the material or fur so prepared.
a1366Chaucer Rom. Rose 229 A burnet cote..Furred with no menivere, But with a furre rough of here, Of lambe⁓skinnes hevy and blake. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxv. (Julian) 506 For he resemblyt fore to be worthy and gud; bot ȝet he wykyt wolfe wes withine, & heylyt in a lame⁓skine. Ibid. xxxi. (Eugenia) 378 He is wolf in lamskine hyd, & ful verray ypocrite. 1492Ld. Treas. Acc. Scotl. I. 202 Item, for quhyte smal cotton lamskynnis to lyne this gowne. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xiii. 37 Sum in ane lamb skin is ane tod. 1562Act 5 Eliz. c. 22 §1 Yt shall not bee lawful..to pull, sheare, clippe, or take away the wool of anie sheepe skinne or lambe skinne. 1571Satir. Poems Reform. xxix. 45 Schawing quhow, wolfis in lam skynis! þe puire scheip ȝe misgyde. a1586Sidney Arcadia ii. (1622) 115 Like rich Tissew furd with Lambe-skins. 1603Shakes. Meas. for M. iii. ii. 9 A fur'd gowne to keepe him warme; and furd with Foxe and Lamb-skins too. 1682Otway Venice Preserved i. i. Wks. 1727 II. 276 A Rogue that uses Beauty like a Lamb-skin, Barely to keep him warm. 1834L. Ritchie Wand. by Seine 139 A kind of cloak..furred with lambskin.
2. Leather prepared from the skin of lambs.
1745De Foe's Eng. Tradesman xxvi. (1841) I. 266 Her gloves, lambskin, from Berwick and Northumberland, or Scotland. 1899Westm. Gaz. 1 June 3/2 The volumes..are bound in limp lambskin, gilt lettered.
3. Woollen cloth made to resemble lambskin (Ogilvie).
†4. punningly. A heavy blow. Obs. (Cf. lambskin v., lam v.)
[1546J. Heywood Prov. (1867) 62 She must obey those lambs, or els a lambs skyn, Ye will prouyde for hir, to lap her in.] 1573G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 14 Les if you get ous within the half swurd you chaunc to give us the lamskin. 1600S. Forman Autobiog. (1849) 7, I did give her three or four lambskines with the yerd. 1622R. Hawkins Voy. S. Sea xli. 97 I discovered their slynesse, and with a truncheon, which I had in mine hand, gaue the Indians three or foure good lamskinnes.
5. Mining. Anthracite slack, culm.
1873Weale's Dict. Terms (ed. 4), Lamb-skin, a name given to a variety of anthracite coal sold at Swansea.
6. attrib.: † lamb-skin-man (see quot.).
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Lamb-skin-men, the Judges of the several Courts.
▪ II. † lambskin, v. Obs.
[f. lambskin n.]
trans. To beat, to thrash.
1589Marprel. Epit. B, He hath giuen the cause sicken a wipe in his bricke, and so lambskinned the same, that the cause will be the warmer..for it. 1592G. Harvey Pierce's Super. 131 To lamback him with ten yeares preparation, that can lamskin thee with a dayes warning. 1635Brome Sparagus Gard. iv. v. Wks. 1873 III. 185 Or if I baste you not well a fine, and Lambe-skinne your jackets till your bones rattle i' your hides. |