Wolf

[wʊlf]

Definition

(noun.) any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs.

(noun.) a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women.

(noun.) German classical scholar who claimed that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed by several authors (1759-1824).

(noun.) Austrian composer (1860-1903).

(verb.) eat hastily; 'The teenager wolfed down the pizza'.

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Definition

(a.) Any one of several species of wild and savage carnivores belonging to the genus Canis and closely allied to the common dog. The best-known and most destructive species are the European wolf (Canis lupus), the American gray, or timber, wolf (C. occidentalis), and the prairie wolf, or coyote. Wolves often hunt in packs, and may thus attack large animals and even man.

(a.) One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths; as, the bee wolf.

(a.) Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.

(a.) A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.

(a.) An eating ulcer or sore. Cf. Lupus.

(a.) The harsh, howling sound of some of the chords on an organ or piano tuned by unequal temperament.

(a.) In bowed instruments, a harshness due to defective vibration in certain notes of the scale.

(a.) A willying machine.

Checker: Rupert

Definition

n. the common name of certain species of the genus Canis—including the ravenous Common Wolf the Abyssinian Wolf the Antarctic Wolf the Maned Wolf and the Prairie Wolf or Coyote: anything very ravenous: a greedy and cunning person: (obs.) a tuberculous excrescence: (mus.) a harsh discord heard in the organ &c.:—pl. Wolves.—v.i. to hunt for wolves.—v.t. (slang) to devour ravenously.—ns. Wolf′-dog a dog of large breed kept to guard sheep esp. against wolves; Wol′fer one who hunts wolves; Wolf′-fish a fierce and voracious salt-water fish—called also Sea-wolf and Cat-fish; Wolf′-hound (see Borzoi); Wol′fing the hunting of wolves for their skins.—adjs. Wol′fish Wol′vish like a wolf either in form or quality: rapacious.—adv. Wol′fishly.—ns. Wolf′kin Wolf′ling a young wolf; Wolf's′-bane aconite; Wolf's′-foot -claw the club-moss Lycopodium; Wolf′-skin the skin or pelt of a wolf; Wolf's′-peach the tomato; Wolf′-spī′der the tarantula; Wolf′-tooth a small supernumerary premolar in a horse.—Cry wolf to give a false alarm—from the story of the boy who cried 'Wolf' when there was none and was not believed when there was one; Have a wolf by the ears to be in a very difficult situation; Have a wolf in the stomach to be ravenously hungry; Keep the wolf from the door to keep out hunger; See a wolf to lose one's voice in allusion to an old superstition.

Editor: Rufus