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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Tame, a. [Compar. Tamer superl. Tamest.]
 1. Reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness; accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic; as, a tame deer, a tame bird.
 2. Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
    Tame slaves of the laborious plow.   --Roscommon.
 3. Deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless; dull; flat; insipid; as, a tame poem; tame scenery.
 Syn: -- Gentle; mild; meek. See Gentle.