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legs skulked under the table as free from sartorial impertinences as those of the noblest savages. Lowell.

The state of being savage; the state of rude, uncivilized men, or of men in their native wildness and rudeness.

l pleasures; luxuriousness; voluptuousness; lewdness. Those pampered animals That rage in savage sensuality. Shak. They avoid dress, lest they should have affections tainted by any sensuality. Addison.

A faint representation; an adumbration. There are . . . in savage theology shadowings, quaint or majestic, of the conception of a Supreme Deity. Tylor.

standing for words, shorthand, etc., in ancient manuscripts, or on coins, medals, etc. W. Savage.

To be on the border; to live near the border, or extremity. Savages . . . who skirt along our western frontiers. S. S. Smith.

uction of life; to kill; to slay in battle. Your castle is surprised; your wife and babes Savagely slaughtered. Shak.

with sneers; to affect or move by sneers. Nor sneered nor bribed from virtue into shame. Savage.

t; as, to soothe a crying child; to soothe one's sorrows. Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. Congreve. Though the sound of Fame May for a moment soothe, it can not slake The fever of vain longing. Byron.

To spend lavishly; to be wasteful. They often squandered, but they never gave. Savage.

To sit down upon the hams or heels; as, the savages squatted near the fire.

To auscultate, or examine, with a stethoscope. M. W. Savage.

n into niceties; as, to subtilize arguments. Nor as yet have we subtilized ourselves into savages. Burke.

A kind of blowgun for discharging arrows, -- used by the savages of Borneo and adjacent islands.

Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny. "Swart attendants." Trench. "Swart savage maids." Hawthorne. A nation strange, with visage swart. Spenser.

ament placed at the bottom of a short page to fill up the space, or at the end of a book. Savage.

Capable of being tamed, subdued, or reclaimed from wildness or savage ferociousness. -- Tam"a*ble*ness, n.

n; a tar. To a landsman, these tarpaulins, as they were called, seemed a strange and half-savage race. Macaulay.

r Eucalyptus. -- Tasmanain devil. (Zoöl.) See under Devil. -- Tasmanain wolf (Zoöl.), a savage carnivorous marsupial; -- called also zebra wolf. See Zebra wolf, under Wolf.

An instrument used by various savage races for throwing a spear; -- called also throw stick and spear thrower. One end of the stick receives the butt of the spear, as upon a hook or thong, and the other end is grasped with the hand, which also holds the spear, toward the middle, above it with the finger and thumb, the…