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Tamer

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tame  (tm)
adj. tam·er, tam·est
1. Brought from wildness into a domesticated or tractable state.
2. Naturally unafraid; not timid: "The sea otter is gentle and relatively tame" Peter Matthiessen.
3. Submissive; docile; fawning: tame obedience.
4. Insipid; flat: a tame Christmas party.
5. Sluggish; languid; inactive: a tame river.
tr.v. tamed, tam·ing, tames
1. To make tractable; domesticate.
2. To subdue or curb.
3. To tone down; soften.
[Middle English, from Old English tam; see dem- in Indo-European roots.]
tama·ble, tamea·ble adj.
tamely adv.
tameness n.
tamer n.
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Noun1.Tamertamer - an animal trainer who tames wild animals
animal trainer, handler - one who trains or exhibits animals
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Were we among the tamer scenes of nature I might fear to encounter your unbelief, perhaps your ridicule; but many things will appear possible in these wild and mysterious regions which would provoke the laughter of those unacquainted with the ever- varied powers of nature; nor can I doubt but that my tale conveys in its series internal evidence of the truth of the events of which it is composed.
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So it has been since the days of Hecuba, and of Hector, Tamer of horses; inside the gates, the women with streaming hair and uplifted hands offering prayers, watching the world's combat from afar, filling their long, empty days with memories and fears; outside, the men, in fierce struggle with things divine and human, quenching memory in the stronger light of purpose, losing the sense of dread and even of wounds in the hurrying ardor of action.
The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context
We were in just the state of equilibrium that would remain in one of those "Happy Family" cages which animal-tamers exhibit, if the tamer were to leave it for ever.
The Island of Doctor Moreau by Wells, H.G. View in context
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