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.
Tame, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tamed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Taming.] [AS.
tamian, temian, akin to D. tammen, temmen, G. zähmen, OHG. zemmen,
Icel. temja, Goth. gatamjan. See Tame, a.] 1. To reduce from a wild to
a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar; to reclaim; to
domesticate; as, to tame a wild beast.
They had not been tamed into submission, but baited into savegeness and
stubbornness.
Macaulay.
2. To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride or passions
of youth.
Tame"a*ble (?), a. Tamable. Bp. Wilkins.
Tame"less, a. Incapable of being tamed; wild; untamed; untamable. Bp.
Hall. — Tame"less*ness, n.
Tame"ly, adv. In a tame manner.
Tame"ness, n. The quality or state of being tame.
Tam"er (?), n. One who tames or subdues.
||Ta"mi*as (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a distributer.] (Zoöl.) A genus of
||ground squirrels, including the chipmunk.
||
Ta"mil (?), a. Of or pertaining to the Tamils, or to their language.
[Written also Tamul.]
Ta"mil, n. [Written also Tamul.] 1. (Ethnol.) One of a Dravidian race
of men native of Northern Ceylon and Southern India.
2. The Tamil language, the most important of the Dravidian languages.
See Dravidian, a.
Ta*mil"i*an (?), a. & n. Tamil.
{ Tam"ine (?), Tam"i*ny (?), } n. [Cf. F. tamis a sort of sieve. Cf.
Stamin, Temse.] A kind of woolen cloth; tammy.
Tam"is (?), n. [F., a kind of sieve.] 1. A sieve, or strainer, made of
a kind of woolen cloth.