savage 
2. Living in the forests or wilds, (a) Not domes- 
ticated ; feral ; wild ; hence, fierce ; ferocious ; untamed : 
as, savage beasts of prey. 
In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke. 
Shak., Much Ado, i. 1. 263. 
(i>) Brutal; beastly. 
Those pamper'd animals 
That rage in savage sensuality. 
Shak., Much Ado, iv. 1. 62. 
3. Living in the lowest condition of develop- 
ment; uncultivated and wild; uncivilized: as, 
savage tribes. 
The salvage nation feele her secret smart, 
And read her sorrow in her count'nance sad. 
Spenser, F. Q., I. vi. 11. 
I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky 
race. Tennyson, Locksley Hall. 
4. Of, pertaining to. or characteristic of man 
in such a condition ; unpolished; rude: as, ar- 
age life or manners. Hence 5. Barbarous; 
fierce; cruel. 
Thy threatening colours now wind up ; 
And tame the savage spirit of wild war. 
Shak., K. John, v. 2. 74. 
Some are of disposition fearefull, some bold, most caute- 
lous, all Savage. Capt. John Smith, Works, I. 129. 
6. Wild or enraged as from provocation, irri- 
tation, restraint, etc. 
Michel Augelo's head is full of masculine and gigantic 
figures as gods walking, which makes him savage until 
his furious chisel can render them into marble. 
Emerson, Old Age. 
7. In her., nude; naked; in blazonry, noting 
human figures unclothed, as the supporters of 
the arms of Prussia. 
On either side stood as supporters ... a salvage man 
proper, to use the language of heraldry, wreathed and 
cinctured. Scott, Guy Mannering, xli. 
= Syn. 3 and 4. Brutish, heathenish. 5. Pitiless, merci- 
less, unmerciful, remorseless, bloody, murderous. 
II. . 1. A wild or uncivilized human being ; 
a member of a race or tribe in the lowest stage 
of development or cultivation. 
I am as free as nature first made man, 
Ere the base laws of servitude began, 
When wild in woods the noble savage ran. 
Dryden, Conquest of Granada, I. i, 1. 
The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser sav- 
age. Thoreau, Walden, p. 46. 
2. An unfeeling, brutal, or cruel person; a 
fierce or cruel man or woman, whether civil- 
ized or uncivilized; a barbarian. 3. A wild 
or fierce animal. 
When the grim savage [the lion], to his rifled den 
Too late returning, snuffs the track of men. 
Pope, Iliad, xviii. 373. 
His office resembled that of the man who, in a Spanish 
bull-fight, goads the torpid savage to fury by shaking a 
red rag in the air, and by now and then throwing a dart. 
Macaulay, Nugent's Hampden. 
4. Same as jack of the clock. Seejercfc 1 . 
savage (sav'aj), >. ; pret. and pp. savaged, ppr. 
sen-aging. (X savage, .] I. trans. To make 
wild, barbarous, or cruel. [Rare.] 
let then the dogs of Faction bark and bay, 
Its bloodhounds savaged by a cross of wolf, 
Its full-bred kennel from the Blatant-beast, 
Southei/. 
II. intrans. To act the savage; indulge in 
cruel or barbarous deeds. [Rare.] 
Though the blindness of some ferities have savaged on 
the bodies of the dead, . . .yet had they no design upon 
the soul. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., vii. 19. 
savagedom (sav'aj-dum), n. [< savage + -dom.~\ 
A savage state or condition ; also, savages col- 
lectively. 
The scale of advancement of a country between savage- 
dom and civilization may generally be determined by the 
style of its pottery. Sir S. W. Baker, Heartof Africa, xviii. 
savagely (sav'aj-li), adv. 1. In the manner of 
a savage; cruelly; inhumanly. 
Your wife and babes savagely slaughter'd. 
Shak., Macbeth, iv. 3. 206. 
2. With extreme impetuosity or fierceness: as, 
to attack one siirar/ely. [Colloq.] 
savageness (sav'aj-nes), ?. 1. Savage charac- 
ter or condition ; the state of being rude, un- 
civilized, or barbarous ; barbarism. 2. Wild, 
fierce, or untamed disposition, instincts, or 
habits; cruelty; barbarity; savagery. 
An admirable musician : ! she will sing the savage- 
ness out of a bear. Shale., Othello, iv. 1. 200. 
3. Fierceness; ferocity; rabid impetuosity. 
In spite of the savageness of his satires, . . . [Pope's] 
natural disposition seems to have been an amiable one, 
and his character as an author was as purely fictitious as 
his style. Lowell, Study Windows, p. 4->ii. 
savagery (sav'aj-ri), >i. [< F. saiti-tit/<nr; MS 
snniijc + -n/.] 1. Savage or uncivilized state 
or condition; a state of barbarism. 
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The human race might have fallen back into primeval 
savagery. Froude, Short Studies on Great Subjects, p. 201. 
2. Savage or barbarous nature, disposition, con- 
duct, or actions; barbarity. 
This is the bloodiest shame, 
The wildest savagery, the vilest stroke, 
That ever wall-eyed wrath or staling rage 
Presented to the tears of soft remorse. 
Shak., K. John, iv. 3. 48. 
A huge man-beast of boundless savagery. 
Tennyson, Gareth and Lynette. 
3. Wild growth, as of plants ; wildness, as of 
nature. 
Her fallow leas 
The darnel, hemlock, and rank fumitory 
Doth root upon, while that the coulter rusts 
That should deracinate such savagery. 
Shak., Hen. V., v. 2.47. 
Except for the rudest purposes of shelter from rain and 
cold, the cabin possessed but little advantage over the 
simple savagery of surrounding nature. 
Bret Harte, Mrs. Skagg's Husbands (Argonauts, p. 29). 
savagism (sav'aj-izm), n. [< savage + -ism.} 
1. Savagery; utter barbarism. 
The manner in which a people is likely to pass from 
savagism to civilization. 
W. Taylor, Survey of German Poetry, II. 296. 
2. Savage races or tribes collectively. 
An elective judiciary supersedes the chief of savagism 
or the despot of the Orient. N. A. Rev., CXLII. 561. 
savanilla (sav-a-nil'a), n. A large herring-like 
fish, the tarpon, Megalops atlanticus. Also 
called sabalo and silverflsh. [Texas.] 
savanna (sa-van'a), n. [Also savannah; = F. 
savane = G. savanne, < OSp. savana, with ac- 
cent on second syllable (see def.), Sp. sdvana, 
a large cloth, a sheet, = OHG. saban, sapon, 
MHG. saben = AS. saban, a sheet, < LL. sa- 
banum, a linen cloth, towel, napkin, = Goth, sa- 
ban, < Gr. adfiavov, a linen cloth, towel.] (a) A 
plain or extensive flat area covered with a 
sheet of snow or ice : so first used, with the ac- 
cent on the first syllable, by Spanish writers. 
(6) A treeless plain : so first used in reference 
to American topography by Oviedo (1535), with 
the accent on the second syllable. Used in mod- 
ern times in Spain, with the accent changed to the second 
syllable (sabana), and defined in various dictionaries 
(1866-82) as meaning an "extensive treeless plain," and 
generally with the additional statement that it is "a word 
much used in America." This word was frequently used 
by English writers on various parts of America, in the form 
savanna and savannah, as early as 1699, and always with 
the meaning of "treeless region." It is still used occa- 
sionally with that meaning, and as being more or less near- 
ly the equivalent of prairie, steppe, or plain, by writers in 
English on physical geography. As a word in popular 
use, it is hardly known among English-speaking people, ex- 
cept in the southern Atlantic States, and chiefly in Florida. 
At Sun-set I got out into the clear open Savannah, being 
about two Leagues wide in most Places, but how long I 
know not. Dampier, Voyages, II. ii. 84. 
Regions of wood and wide savannah, vast 
Expanse of unappropriated earth. 
W ordncorth, Excursion, iii. 
Thus, Sir. Barbour says, in speaking of the land ad- 
jacent to the St. John's river, above Lake Monroe, "it is 
a flat, level region of savannas, much resembling the vast 
prairies of Illinois." 
J. D. Whitney, Names and Places, p. 187. 
savanna-blackbird (sa-van'a-blak'berd), w. 
Same as ani. 
savanna-finch (sa-van'a-finch), n. See finclti . 
savanna-flower (sa-van'a-flou"er), . A West 
Indian name for various species of Echites, a 
genus of the milkweed family. 
savanna-sparrow (sa-van'a-spar"6), . Any 
sparrow of the genus Passerculiis, especially 
....'* . 
Savanna-sparrow (Passercnlits savanna*. 
that one (P. savanna) which is common through- 
out the greater part of North America. 
savanna-wattle (sa-van'a-wot"l), n. A name 
of the West Indian trees Citharexylmn gittul- 
riiiigiilriiT Mini r. riiie rea, otherwise called J!<l- 
dlewood. 
save 
savant (sa-von'), . [< F. savant, a learned man, 
< xni-ant, learned, knowing, ppr. of sacoir, know, 
< L. sapere, have sense or discernment: see 
xiijiifiit, of which savant is a doublet.] A man 
of learning or science ; one eminent for learn- 
ing- 
it is curious to see in what little apartments a French 
mi runt lives ; you will find him at his books, covered with 
Bnuif, with a little dog that bites your legs. 
Sydney Smith, To Mrs. Sydney Smith. 
Savart's wheel. See wheel. 
save 1 (sav), v.; pret. and pp. saved, ppr. saving. 
[< ME. saven,sauven, salven, < OF. sativer, salver, 
F. sauver, save, =Pr. Sp. Pg. salvar = lt. salvare, 
< LL. saiwe,make safe, secure, save,< ii.salvus, 
safe: see safe.} I. trans. 1. To preserve from 
danger, injury, loss, destruction, or evil of any 
kind; wrest or keep from impending danger; 
rescue: as, to save a house from burning, or a 
man from drowning; to sare a family from 
ruin. 
Theophylus was of that Cytee also, that oure Ladye 
xiirnlr from cure Enemye. Mandeville, Travels, p. 43. 
And thei speken of hire propre nature, and salven men 
that gon thorghe the Desertes, and speken to hem als ap- 
pertely as thoughe it were a man. 
Mandeville, Travels, p. 274. 
Yet shal I saven hire, and thee and me. 
Hastow not herd how saved was Noe? 
Chaucer, Miller's Tale, 1. 347. 
But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; 
and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me. 
Mat. xiv. 30. 
None has deserv'd her, 
If worth must carry it, and service seek her, 
But he that sav'd her honour. 
Beau, and Ft., Knight of Malta, ii. 6. 
Not long after, a Boat, going abroad to seeke out some 
releefe amongst the Plantations, by Nuports-news met such 
ill weather, though the men were saued, they lost their boat. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, II. 82. 
2. To deliver from the power and penal con- 
sequences of sin ; rescue from sin and spiritual 
death. 
He shall save his people from their sins. Mat. i. 21. 
And they were astonished out of measure, saying among 
themselves, Who then can be saved? Mark x. 26. 
Men cannot be saved without calling upon God ; nor 
call upon him acceptably without faith. 
Donne, Sermons, vi. 
All who are saved, even the least inconsistent of us, can 
be saved only by faith, not by works. 
J. II. Newman, Parochial Sermons, i. 170. 
3. To deliver ; defend. 
But of all plagues, good heaven, thy wrath can send, 
Save, save, oh ! save me from the Candid Friend ! 
Canning, New Morality, 1. 210. 
4. To spare : as, to save one's self much trouble 
and expense. 
If you had been the wife of Hercules, 
Six of his labours you 'Id have done, and saved 
Your husband so much sweat. Shak., Cor., iv. 1. 18. 
Save your labour ; 
In this I'll use no counsel but mine own. 
Beau, and Fl., Thierry and Theodoret, i. 2. 
Robin's buckler proved his chiefest defence, 
And saved him many a bang. 
Robin Hood and the Shepherd (Child's Ballads, V. 240). 
5. To use or preserve with frugal care ; keep 
fresh or good, as for future use; husband: as, 
to save one's clothes; to save one's strength for 
a final effort. 
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide 
For his shrunk shank. 
Shak., As you Like it, ii. 7. 160. 
Every thing -including the carpet and curtains look- 
ed at once well worn and well saved. 
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, xxix. 
6. To avoid, curtail, or lessen ; especially, to 
lessen waste in or of; economize: as, to save 
time, expense, or labor. 
Bestow every thing in even hogsheads, if you can ; for it 
will save much in the charge of freight. 
Witithrop, Hist. New England, I. 464. 
7. To lay by, little by little, and as the result 
of frugal care ; lay up ; hoard : as, he has saved 
quite a good sum out of his scanty earnings. 
I have five hundred crowns, 
The thrifty hire I saved under your father. 
Shak., As you Like it, ii. 3. 3. 
8. To take advantage of; utilize; avoid miss- 
ing or losing; be in time for; catch: as, to save 
the tide. 
To save the post, I write to you after a long day's worry 
at my place of business. If. Collins. 
9. To prevent the occurrence, use, or necessity 
of; obviate: as, a stitch in time safes nine. 
Will you not speak to save a lady's blush? 
Dryden. Spanish Friar, iv. 2. 
The best way 's to let the blood barken upon the cut- 
that saves plasters. Scott, Guy Mannering, xxiii. 
