Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Tamest"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Tame \Tame\, a. [Compar. {Tamer}; superl. {Tamest}.] [AS. tam;
akin to D. tam, G. zahm, OHG. zam, Dan. & Sw. tam, Icel.
tamr, L. domare to tame, Gr. ?, Skr. dam to be tame, to tame,
and perhaps to E. beteem. [root]61. Cf. {Adamant}, {Diamond},
{Dame}, {Daunt}, {Indomitable}.]
1. Reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness;
accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic; as, a tame
deer, a tame bird.

2. Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.

Tame slaves of the laborious plow. --Roscommon.

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

Syn: Gentle; mild; meek. See {Gentle}.


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