KJV Dictionary - tame
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TAME
TAME, a.
1. That has lost its native wildness and shyness; mild; accustomed to man; domestic; as a tame deer; a tame bird.
2. Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
And you, tame slaves of the laborious plow.
3. Spiritless; unanimated; as a tame poem. Not elegant nor in use.
TAME, v.t. L. domo; Heb. to be silent, dumb.
1. To reclaim; to reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar; as, to tame a wild beast.
2. To civilize; as, to tame the ferocious inhabitants of the forest.
3. To subdue; to conquer; to depress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth.
4. To subdue; to repress; as wildness or licentiousness.
The tongue can no man tame. James 3.
Definition from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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