(sav′ij) adjective
1. Of a wild and untamed nature; not domesticated; hence, ferocious; fierce.
2. Living in or belonging to the most primitive and rude condition of human life and society; uncivilized; uncultivated: savage tribes.
3. Enraged; cruel; furious: said of man or beast.
4. Obs. Remote from human abode; belonging to the wilderness: a savage trail. See synonyms under BARBAROUS, BITTER, FIERCE, GRIM, SANGUINARY.
—noun
1. A primitive or uncivilized human being.
2. A brutal, fierce, and cruel person; a barbarian. [<OF salvage, sauvage <L silvaticus, salvaticus <silva a wood]
—sav′age·ly adverb

(sav′ij), Arthur William,
1857–1938, U. S. inventor; manufacturer of rifles, etc.
—Richard,
1697?–1743, English poet.