savagea.[F. sauvage, OF. salvage, fr. L. silvaticus belonging to a wood, wild, fr. silva a wood. See Silvan, and cf. Sylvatic.]1. Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness.()2. Wild; untamed; uncultivated; as, savage beasts.()Cornels, and savage berries of the wood. (Dryden.)3. Uncivilized; untaught; unpolished; rude; as, savage life; savage manners.()What nation, since the commencement of the Christian era, ever rose from savage to civilized without Christianity? (E. D. Griffin.)4. Characterized by cruelty; barbarous; fierce; ferocious; inhuman; brutal; as, a savage spirit.()()n.1. A human being in his native state of rudeness; one who is untaught, uncivilized, or without cultivation of mind or manners.()2. A man of extreme, unfeeling, brutal cruelty; a barbarian.()v. t. To make savage.()Its bloodhounds, savaged by a cross of wolf. (Southey.)