adj

• (chiefly of animals) Accustomed to human contact.
• (chiefly of animals) Docile or tranquil towards humans.
  "The lion was quite tame."
• (figurative) Of a person, well-behaved; not radical or extreme.
  "What, for example, were Fraunhofer's lines? McArdle had just been studying the matter with the aid of our tame scientist at the office, and he picked from his desk two of those many-coloured spectral bands which bear a general resemblance to the hat-ribbons of some young and ambitious cricket club."
• (obsolete) Of a non-Westernised person, accustomed to European society.
  "The victim was Captain Bickenson, who had gone there from Port Darwin to try the pearling grounds, and for this purpose employed a number of tame blacks about the schooner."

verb

• (transitive) To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate.
  "He tamed the wild horse."
• (transitive) To make submissive or docile.
  "The governor tames the engine."
• (transitive) To take control of something that is unruly.
  "Police have to tame the riots."
• (intransitive) To become tame or domesticated.
  "Tambourines are shy birds and do not tame easily."

verb

• (obsolete, UK, dialect) To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
  "In the 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."