Tame
Tame , transitive verb
[Compare French entamer to cut into, to broach.]
To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out. [Obsolete or Provincial English]
In the time of famine he is the Joseph of the country, and keeps the poor from starving. Then he tameth his stacks of corn, which not his covetousness, but providence, hath reserved for time of need.
Tame , adjective
[Anglo-Saxon tam; akin to Dutch tam, German zahm, Old High German zam, Danish & Swedish tam, Icelandic tamr, Latin domare to tame, Greek {not transcribed}, Sanskrit dam to be tame, to tame, and perhaps to English beteem. r61. Compare 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.
3.
Deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless; dull; flat; insipid; as, a tame poem; tame scenery.
Tame , transitive verb
[Anglo-Saxon tamian, temian, akin to Dutch tammen, temmen, German zahmen, Old High German zemmen, Icelandic temja, Gothic 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.
2.
To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth.