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, adv. In a fell or cruel manner; fiercely; barbarously; savagely. Spenser.

Wild; untamed; savage; as, lions, tigers, wolves, and bears are ferine beasts. Sir M. Hale. -- n.

Wildness; savageness; fierceness. [Obs.] Woodward.

Fierce; savage; wild; indicating cruelty; ravenous; rapacious; as, ferocious look or features; a ferocious lion. The humbled power of a ferocious enemy. Lowth.

Savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty; as, ferocity of countenance. The pride and ferocity of a Highland chief. Macaulay.

Wild; savage. [R.] Arthur Wilson.

oden pin in a wooden socket; -- used by the Hindoos during all historic time, and by many savage peoples. -- Fire eater. (a) A juggler who pretends to eat fire. (b) A quarrelsome person who seeks affrays; a hotspur. [Colloq.] -- Fire engine, a portable forcing pump, usually on wheels, for throwing water to extinguish…

er, the petals having large stripes. Flake knife (Archæol.), a cutting instrument used by savage tribes, made of a flake or chip of hard stone. Tylor. -- Flake stand, the cooling tub or vessel of a still worm. Knight. -- Flake white. (Paint.) (a) The purest white lead, in the form of flakes or scales. (b) The trisnit…

Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc. W. Savage.

To instruct in the gospel; to evangelize; as, to gospelize the savages. Boyle.

bles or stones. Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace, And waste their music on the savage race. Young.

f a wall, a room, etc. Hung be the heavens with black. Shak. And hung thy holy roofs with savage spoils. Dryden.

A member of any tribe or race of savages who have the custom of decapitating human beings and preserving their heads as trophies. The Dyaks of Borneo are the most noted head-hunters. -- Head"-hunt`ing, n.

Rude; uncivilized; savage; cruel. South.

One of a degraded and savage race of South Africa, with yellowish brown complexion, high cheek bones, and wooly hair growing in tufts.

Not tamed; untamed; savage; wild. [Obs.] J. Salkeld.

Destitute of the kindness and tenderness that belong to a human being; cruel; barbarous; savage; unfeeling; as, an inhuman person or people.

ence or contempt; an affront; an indignity. The ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief. Savage.

That which makes a jingling sound, as a rattle. If you plant where savages are, do not only entertain them with trifles and jingles,but use them justly. Bacon.

wood, shell, stone, or other substance, worn in a perforation of the lip or cheek by many savages.