English English Dictionary

English English Dictionary

The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg

Result for Tame

Tame (v. t.)

To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.

Tame (superl.)

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

Tame (superl.)

Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.

Tame (superl.)

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

Tame (a.)

To reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar; to reclaim; to domesticate; as, to tame a wild beast.

Tame (a.)

To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth.