SAVAGE, sav'[=a]j, _adj._ wild: uncivilised: fierce: cruel: brutal:
(_her._) nude: naked.--_n._ a human being in a wild state: a brutal,
fierce, or cruel person: a barbarian.--_v.t._ and _v.i._ to make savage, to
play the savage.--_n._ SAV'AGEDOM, a savage state: savages
collectively.--_adv._ SAV'AGELY.--_ns._ SAV'AGENESS; SAV'AGERY, fierceness:
ferocity: wild growth of plants; SAV'AGISM. [O. Fr. _salvage_--L.
_silvaticus_, pertaining to the woods--_silva_, a wood.]
SAVANNA, SAVANNAH, sa-van'a, _n._ a tract of level land, covered with low
vegetation: a treeless plain.--_ns._ SAVANN'A-FLOW'ER, a genus of the
milk-weed family, West Indies; SAVANN'A-SPARR'OW, the sparrow common
through North America; SAVANN'A-WATT'LE, a name of certain West Indian
trees, also called _Fiddlewood_. [Sp. _savana_, _sabana_, a sheet, a
meadow--Low L. _sabanum_--Gr. _sabanon_, a linen cloth.]