tame

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Brought from wildness into a domesticated or tractable state.
2. adj. Naturally unafraid; not timid: "The sea otter is gentle and relatively tame” ( Peter Matthiessen).
3. adj. Submissive; docile; fawning: tame obedience.
4. adj. Insipid; flat: a tame Christmas party.
5. adj. Sluggish; languid; inactive: a tame river.
6. v. To make tractable; domesticate.
7. v. To subdue or curb.
8. v. To tone down; soften.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Reclaimed from wildness, savagery, or barbarism. Of persons, civilized; made peaceable, docile, or polite in manners and habits.
2. Of beasts, birds, etc.: Reclaimed from the feral condition or state of nature for the use or benefit of man; not wild; domesticated; made tractable.
3. Having lost or not exhibiting the usual characteristics of a wild animal, as ferocity, fear of man, and shyness: as, a tame wild cat; the wild ducks are quite tame this season; the bear seemed very tame.
4. Cultivated; improved: noting land, vegetable products, etc.
5. Submissive; spiritless; pusillanimous.
6. Sluggish; languid; dull; lacking earnestness, fervor, or ardor.
7. Deficient in interesting or striking qualities; uninspiring; insipid; flat: as, a tame description.
8. Ineffectual; impotent; inert.
9. Accommodated to one's habits; wonted; accustomed.
10. Feeble, vapid, prosy, prosaic.
11. To reclaim from a wild or savage state; overcome the natural ferocity or shyness of; make gentle and tractable; domesticate; break in, as a wild beast or bird.
12. To subdue; curb; reduce to submission.
13. To destroy; kill.
14. To deprive of courage, spirit, ardor, or animation.
15. To make subdued in color or luster; soften; relieve; tone down.
16. To open; broach.
17. To divide; deal out; formerly, to cut; carve.

Wiktionary

1. adj. Not or no longer wild; domesticated
2. adj. Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact
3. adj. Not exciting
4. adj. mathematics Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
5. v. transitive to make something tame
6. v. intransitive to become tame

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. Obs. or Prov. Eng. To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
2. adj. Reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness; accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic.
3. adj. Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
4. adj. Deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless; dull; flat; insipid.
5. v. To reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar; to reclaim; to domesticate.
6. v. To subdue; to conquer; to repress.

WordNet 3.0

1. adj. very restrained or quiet
2. v. correct by punishment or discipline
3. adj. very docile
4. adj. flat and uninspiring
5. v. make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans
6. adj. brought from wildness into a domesticated state
7. v. adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
8. v. make less strong or intense; soften.
9. v. overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable