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Taming

Tame \Tame\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tamed; p. pr. & vb. n. Taming.] [AS. tamian, temian, akin to D. tammen, temmen, G. z["a]hmen, OHG. zemmen, Icel. temja, Goth. gatamjan. See Tame, a.]

  1. To reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar; to reclaim; to domesticate; as, to tame a wild beast.

    They had not been tamed into submission, but baited into savegeness and stubbornness.
    --Macaulay.

  2. To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth.

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taming

vb. (present participle of tame English)

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Taming
Taming (shield)

Taming is a shield of Moro people, Philippines. It is made of tightly woven rattan. Its origin is unsure: various scholars suggest it comes from Maranaos, Chinese, Moluccan, or Spanish. In Indonesian language, Tameng is a general term for shield.

Taming (disambiguation)

Taming may refer to:

  • Animal taming
  • Animal training
  • Taming (shield), a Philippine shield
  • Taming Sari, a legendary Malay kris

Usage examples of "taming".

I have always found that the confinement of a cage operates greatly against the chance of taming any wild animal.

But what a step, Peter thought, and probably the same thought occurred to Gillian: she turned quickly and walked on, the hard sun flash through trees taming her blindly, melting down her eyes.

Alexandra was dressed yesterday--and by the way she defended herself--that The Lion has had very little luck taming his wife.

Refusing to fag at Eton, he was treated with revolting cruelty by masters and boys: this roused instead of taming his spirit, and he rejected the duty of obedience when it was enforced by menaces and punishment.

She had been proudly showing off her newest accomplishment to her friends, the taming of Rhiska.

Ari had said that it was supposedly the Altans who had taught the trick of capturing and taming dragons to ride to the Tians.

He really did not want to add fuel to the rumors by taming Coresan down into a Kashet in the course of half a day.

With the taming of the plants, the land had become much more productive.

I shall leave you in peace to reexamine your strategy in taming the damsel.

Reamon had once told her that some men of his race had succeeded in taming the golden winged horses of the west, and these men became great princes and warriors.