LekhoriLekhoriAccustomed to human contact.
Docile or tranquil towards humans.
The lion was quite tame.
Of a person, well-behaved; not radical or extreme.
What, for example, were Fraunhofer's lines? McArdle had just been studying the matter with the aid of our tame scientist at the office, and he picked from his desk two of those many-coloured spectral bands which bear a general resemblance to the hat-ribbons of some young and ambitious cricket club.
A surname transferred from the nickname.
A river in the West Midlands, Warwickshire and Staffordshire, England, a tributary to the Trent.
A river in Greater Manchester, England, which joins the River Goyt at Stockport, then becoming the River Mersey.
From Middle English tame, tome, weak inflection forms of Middle English tam, tom, from Old English tam, tom (“domesticated, tame”), from Proto-West Germanic *tam (“tame”), from Proto-Germanic *tamaz (...
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To make submissive or docile.
The governor tames the engine.
To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
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.