Tame

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·superl Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.

II. Tame ·superl Deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless; dull; flat; insipid; as, a tame poem; tame scenery.

III. Tame ·superl Reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness; accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic; as, a tame deer, a tame bird.

IV. Tame ·vt To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to Divide; to Distribute; to deal out.

V. Tame ·adj To Subdue; to Conquer; to Repress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth.

VI. Tame ·adj To reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar; to Reclaim; to Domesticate; as, to tame a wild beast.

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