TAME, adjective 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, verb transitive [Latin 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 3:8.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI