SAVAGE

a. n. v.

7 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

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

2.
a.

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

3.
a.

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.
a.

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

5.
n.

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

6.
n.

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

7.
v.

To make savage. [R.] Its bloodhounds, savaged by a cross of wolf. South

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