Werewolf
['weəwʊlf;'wɪə-;'wɜː-] or ['wɛrwʊlf]
Definition
(noun.) a monster able to change appearance from human to wolf and back again.
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Definition
(n.) A person transformed into a wolf in form and appetite, either temporarily or permanently, whether by supernatural influences, by witchcraft, or voluntarily; a lycanthrope. Belief in werewolves, formerly general, is not now extinct.
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Definition
n. a person supposed to be able by natural gift or magic art to change himself for a time into a wolf.—adjs. Were′wolfish Wer′wolfish.—n. Were′wolfism lycanthropy.
Editor: Pratt
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A wolf that was once or is sometimes a man. All werewolves are of evil disposition having assumed a bestial form to gratify a beastial appetite but some transformed by sorcery are as humane as is consistent with an acquired taste for human flesh.
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