rare. [See -LING.] A young or little lamb, a lambkin.
1591. Sylvester, Du Bartas, I. ii. 181. The Lambling tender.
1839. Bailey, Festus (1840), 77. Like lambling strayed from some gold-fleecy flock.
1857. Thackeray, Virgin. (1858), I. v. 36. It was over the black sheep [negroes] of the Castlewood flock that Mr. Ward somehow had the most influence. These woolly lamblings were immensely affected by his exhortations.
