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Reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness; accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic; as, a tame deer, a tame bird.

Weighed; determined; reduced to equal or standard weight; as, tared filter papers, used in weighing precipitates.

lative proportion of different qualities, or constituent parts. The common law . . . has reduced the kingdom to its just state and temperament. Sir M. Hale.

id, to give an excess of hardness, and then reheating it gradually until the hardness is reduced or drawn down to the degree required, as indicated by the color produced on a polished portion, or by the burning of oil. Tempering color, the shade of color that indicates the degree of temper in tempering steel, as pale s…

To lead, or endeavor to lead, into evil; to entice to what is wrong; to seduce. Every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. James i. 14.

To convert or reduce into a condition like that of the earth; to make earthy. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To reduce to the condition of a territory.

An old French silver coin, originally of the value of about eighteen pence, subsequently reduced to ninepence, and later to sixpence, sterling. Hence, in modern English slang, a sixpence; -- often contracted to tizzy. Called also teston. Shak.

To render theological; to apply to divinity; to reduce to a system of theology. School divinity was but Aristotle's philosophy theologized. Glanvill.

ical philosophy. -- Systematic theology, that branch of theology of which the aim is to reduce all revealed truth to a series of statements that together shall constitute an organized whole. E. G. Robinson (Johnson's Cyc.).

of poison; especially, a certain compound of sixty-four drugs, prepared, pulverized, and reduced by means of honey to an electuary; -- called also theriaca Andromachi, and Venice treacle.

To shut off, or reduce flow of, as steam to an engine.

An elementary substance found as an oxide in the mineral cassiterite, and reduced as a soft white crystalline metal, malleable at ordinary temperatures, but brittle when heated. It is not easily oxidized in the air, and is used chiefly to coat iron to protect it from rusting, in the form of tin foil with mercury to for…

To dry or parch, as drugs, on a metallic plate till they are friable, or are reduced to the state desired.

To make total, or complete;to reduce to completeness. Coleridge.

The exact state or quality of texture and consistency of well reduced and refined copper.

To draw away; to seduce. [Obs.] I can forget the weakness Of the traduced soldiers. Beau. & Fl.

One who derives or deduces. [Obs.] Fuller.

To derive or deduce; also, to transmit; to transfer. [Obs.] Fotherby.

Capable of being deduced; derivable. [R.] Bp. Warburton.