Category:Savage

Sav"age (48), a. Etym: [f. sauvage, of. salvage, fr. L. silvaticus Belonging to a wood, wild, fr. silva a wood. See silvan, and cf. Sylvatic.]

1. Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes and Cultivation; in a state of nature; nature; wild; as, a savage Wilderness.

2. Wild; untamed; uncultivated; as, savage beasts. Cornels, and savage berries of the wood. Dryden.

3. Uncivilized; untaught; unpolished; rude; as, savage life; savage Manners. What nation, since the commencement of the christian era, ever rose From savage to civilized without christianity e. D. Griffin.

4. Characterized by cruelty; barbarous; fierce; ferocious; inhuman; Brutal; as, a savage spirit.

Syn. -- ferocious; wild; uncultivated; untamed; untaught; uncivilized; Unpolished; rude; brutish; brutal; heathenish; barbarous; cruel; Inhuman; fierce; pitiless; merciless; unmerciful; atrocious. See Ferocious.

Savage Sav"age, n.

1. A human being in his native state of rudeness; one who is Untaught; uncivilized, or without cultivation of mind or manners.

2. A man of extreme, unfeeling, brutal cruelty; a barbarian.

Savage Sav"age (48), v. t.

Defn: to make savage. [r.] Its bloodhounds, savaged by a cross of wolf. South