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.