tamel (tam)

[ tame 2. Submi ive; spiritle ; pusillanimous. I have friends and kinsmen That will not sit down tame with the disgrace That's offer'd to our noble family In what I suffer. Fletcher, Spanish Curate, iv. 1. Why are you so tame? why do not you speak to him, and tell him how he disquiets your house? B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, ii. 1. This country [England] was never remarkable for a tame submi ion to injuries. R. W. Dixon , Hist. Church of Eng., ii. 3. Sluggish; languid; dull; lacking earnestne , fervor, or ardor. The historian himself, tame and creeping as he is in his ordinary style, warms in sympathy with the Emperor. De Quincey , Philos. of Rom. Hist. The age is dull and mean. ean. Men creep, Not walk, with blood too pale and tame To pay the debt they owe to shame. Whittier, To Friends under Arrest for Treason against [Slave Power. We are too tame for either aspirations or regrets, or, if we have them, we know as a matter of course that they cannot be indulged. J. R. Seeley, Nat. Religion, p. 127. 4. Deficient in interesting or striking qualities; uninspiring; insipid; flat: as, a tame description. Rome thought the architectural style of Athens too tame . A. H. Welsh, Rhetoric, xii. The western half of Victoria is level or slightly undulat ing, and as a rule tame in its scenery, exhibiting only thinly IMG:content-2817.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-2818.jpg:[graphic] Encyc. Brit ., XXIV. 215. timbered gra y lands, with appearance of parks. 5. Ineffectual; impotent; inert. His remedies are tame i' the present peace. Shak ., Cor., iv. 6. 2. 6. Accommodated to one's habits; wonted; accustomed. [Rare.] Sequestering from me all That time, acquaintance, custom, and condition Made tame and most familiar to my nature. Shak., T. and C., iii. 3. 10. Tame hay. See hay1.=Syn. 2. Mild, Soft, etc. (see gen tle); docile.-4. Feeble, vapid, prosy, prosaic. tamel (tām), v. t.; pret. and pp. tamed, ppr. tam ing. [ as a wild beast or bird. Which [two lions] first he tam'd with wounds, then by the necks them drew, And 'gainst the hard'ned earth their jaws and shoulders burst. Drayton, Polyolbion, ii. 366. In vain they foamed, in vain they stared, In vain their eyes with fury glared; He tamed 'em to the lash, and bent 'em to the yoke. Add is on , tr. of Horace, Od. iii. 3. 2. To subdue; curb; reduce to submi ion. Tooke towres & towne[s], tamid Knightes, Felled the fal e folke, ferked hem hard. A lisa under of Macedoine (E. E. T. S.), 1. 84. And he so tamed the Scots that none of them durst Hakluyt's Voyages , p. 10. 1. Reclaimed from wildne , savagery, or barbarism. (a) Of persons, civilized; made peaceable, docile, or polite in manners and habits. Esau wilde man huntere, And Jacob tame man tiliere. Genesis and Exodus (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1482. A tame black belonging to us is great at all sorts of hunting. I want to see if he can find us a flying doe for to-morH. Kingsley, Geoffry Hamlyn, xxviii. row. (b) Of beasts, birds, etc.: (1) Reclaimed from the feral condition or state of nature for the use or benefit of man; not wild; domesticated; made tractable. (2) Having lost or not exhibiting the usual characteristics of a wild animal, as ferocity, fear of man, and shyne : as, a tame wild cat; the wild ducks are quite tame this season; the bear seemed very tame. In the Mountaines of Ziz there are Serpents so tame that at dinner time they will come like Dogs and Cats, and gather vp the crums, not offering to hurt any. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 622. (c) Cultivated; improved: noting land, vegetable products, etc. [Now colloq.] Sugar Canes, not tame , 4. or 5. foot high. Quoted in Capt . John Smith's Works, II. 274. The careful pioneer invariably had his corral on land near his house, where the land had become tame . For the land to become tame it was only needed to denude it of timber and let in the sunlight to the surface of the corral. It was not nece ary, probably, to plow and cultivate the ground, but this was sometimes done. Buck's Handbook of Med. Sciences , V. 9. IMG:content-2819.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-2820.png:[blocks in formation] Bp . Hall . The tamele steed could well his waggon wield. Tamele tigers hungering for blood. Shelley, Queen Mab, iv. tamele ne (tām'les-nes), n. The state or quality of being tamele ; untamablene . From thee this tamele ne of heart. Byron , Paris in a, xiii. tamely (tam'li), adv . In a tame manner, in any of the senses of tame . Tamelier than worms are Lovers slain. Cowley, The Mistre , Distance. All this we tamely saw and suffered, without the least attempt to hinder it. Swift, Conduct of Allies. Rich enough, luscious enough; but, after all, somewhat tamely luscious, suggesting the word cloying! D. G. Mitchell , Bound Together, Old Fourth. tamene (tām'nes), n. The state or quality of being tame. In spite of the strange contrast between his [Pitt's] violence in Opposition and his tamene in office, he still po e ed a large share of the public confidence. Macaulay , William Pitt.