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time of famine he is the Joseph of the country, and keeps the poor from starving. Then he tameth his stacks of corn, which not his covetousness, but providence, hath reserved for time of need. Fuller.

Tamable. Bp. Wilkins.

Incapable of being tamed; wild; untamed; untamable. Bp. Hall. -- Tame"less*ness, n.

In a tame manner.

The quality or state of being tame.

One who tames or subdues.

or a thing added. Fuller. My persuasion that the latter verses of the chapter were an additament of a later age. Coleridge.

To broach; to begin. And right anon his tale he hath attamed. Chaucer.

The monthly courses of women; menstrual discharges; menses.

Pertaining to the catamenia, or menstrual discharges.

A dictation or dictate. [R.] Falkland.

To tame. [Obs.] Shak.

Consisting of seven parts, or having the parts in sets of sevens. Gray.

Any species of property that may be inherited; lands, tenements, anything corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed, that may descend to an heir. Blackstone.

Interpretation. [Obs.] Milton.

Slowly; in slow time.

Any one of several metameric forms of the same substance, or of different substances having the same composition; as, xylene has three metamers, viz., orthoxylene, metaxylene, and paraxylene.

One of successive or homodynamous parts in animals and plants; one of a series of similar parts that follow one another in a vertebrate or articulate animal, as in an earthworm; a segment; a somite. See Illust. of Loeven's larva.

a different structure and different properties; as, methyl ether and ethyl alcohol are metameric compounds. See Isomeric.

In a metameric manner.