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) v. t. To make savage. [R.]
Its bloodhounds, savaged by a cross of wolf.
Southey. Savagely
(Sav"age*ly), adv. In a savage manner.
Savageness
(Sav"age*ness), n. The state or quality of being savage.
Wolves and bears, they say,
Casting their savageness aside have done
Like offices of pity.
Shak. Savagery
(Sav"age*ry) n. [F. sauvagerie.]
1. The state of being savage; savageness; savagism.
A like work of primeval savagery.
C. Kingsley. 2. An act of cruelty; barbarity.
The wildest savagery, the vilest stroke,
That ever wall-eyed wrath or staring rage
Presented to the tears
of soft remorse.
Shak. 3. Wild growth, as of plants. Shak.
Savagism
(Sav"a*gism) n. The state of being savage; the state of rude, uncivilized men, or of men in
their native wildness and rudeness.
Savanilla
(Sav`a*nil"la) n. (Zoöl.) The tarpum. [Local, U.S.]
Savanna
(Sa*van"na) n. [Of American Indian origin; cf. Sp. sabana, F. savane.] A tract of level land
covered with the vegetable growth usually found in a damp soil and warm climate, — as grass or reeds,
— but destitute of trees. [Spelt also savannah.]
Savannahs are clear pieces of land without woods.
Dampier. Savanna flower (Bot.), a West Indian name for several climbing apocyneous plants of the genus Echites.
— Savanna sparrow (Zoöl.), an American sparrow (Ammodramus sandwichensis or Passerculus
savanna) of which several varieties are found on grassy plains from Alaska to the Eastern United States.
— Savanna wattle (Bot.), a name of two West Indian trees of the genus Citharexylum.
