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rest; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness.

In a savage manner.

The state or quality of being savage. Wolves and bears, they say, Casting their savageness aside have done Like offices of pity. Shak.

The state of being savage; savageness; savagism. A like work of primeval savagery. C. Kingsley.

Half savage.

Savage fierceness; ferocity.

Description or comparative study of the customs of savage or uncivilized tribes.

A variety of jade. It is used by some savages, particularly the natives of the South Sea Islands, for making axes or hatchets.

An outlaw; a brigand. No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer. Milton.

A man in a rule, savage, or uncivilized state.

Disposition to shed blood; bloodthirstiness. All that bloodiness and savage cruelty which was in our nature. Holland.

Given, or tending, to the shedding of blood; having a cruel, savage disposition; murderous; cruel. Some bloody passion shakes your very frame. Shak.

also bogey.] There are plenty of such foolish attempts at playing bogy in the history of savages. C. Kingsley.

Like a brute; savage; cruel; inhuman; brutish; unfeeling; merciless; gross; as, brutal manners. "Brutal intemperance." Macaulay.

The quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness; pitilessness.

taining to, or characteristic of, a brute beast. Hence: Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless; as, brute violence. Macaulay. The influence of capital and mere brute labor. Playfair.

A very large and savage species of the same genus (B. Caffer) found in South Africa; -- called also Cape buffalo.

Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell. "The victim of a butcherly murder." D. Webster. What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly, This deadly quarrel daily doth beget! Shak.

A boat made of bark or skins, used by savages. A birch canoe, with paddles, rising, falling, on the water. Longfellow.

A small war club, esp. of savages; -- so called because of its supposed use in crushing the skull.