Definition of mary lamb in English English dictionary
{i} (1764-1847) English writer, wrote the children's book "Tales From Shakespeare" together with her brother Charles Lamb, in 1796 she suffered a breakdown and attacked and wounded their father and stabbed and killed their mother with a kitchen knife
a nursery rhyme (=an old song or poem for young children) . The rhyme begins: Mary had a little lamb,/Its fleece was white as snow;/And everywhere that Mary went/The lamb was sure to go