‖n. [ D, earth-wolf ] (Zool.) A carnivorous, striped, quadruped mammal (Proteles cristata, formerly Proteles Lalandii), of South Africa, resembling the fox and hyena. It feeds chiefly on insects. See Proteles. [ 1913 Webster WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Cuckold. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cot a cottage or hut + wold an open country. ] An open country abounding in sheepcotes, as in the Cotswold hills, in Gloucestershire, England. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cotswold sheep, a long-wooled breed of sheep, formerly common in the counties of Gloucester, Hereford, and Worcester, Eng.; -- so called from the Cotswold Hills. The breed is now chiefly amalgamated with others. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A half wolf; a mongrel dog, between a dog and a wolf. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A reddish-gray wolf (Canis rufus or Canis niger) of Southwestern North America.
Syn. -- red wolf, Canis rufus, Canis niger. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) Same as African wild dog.
Syn. -- African wild dog, African hunting dog. [ PJC ]

(Zool.) (a) The wolf fish. (b) The European sea perch. (c) The sea elephant. (d) A sea lion. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. of Swell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Enlarged by swelling; immoderately increased; as, swollen eyes; swollen streams. [ 1913 Webster ]

Contraction of Swollen, p. p. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Threshold. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Werewolf. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Werewolves [ AS. werwulf; wer a man + wulf a wolf; cf. G. wärwolf, währwolf, wehrwolf, a werewolf, MHG. werwolf. √285. See Were a man, and Wolf, and cf. Virile, World. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The werwolf went about his prey. William of Palerne. [ 1913 Webster ]

The brutes that wear our form and face,
The werewolves of the human race. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. See 2d Will. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. wold, wald, AS. weald, wald, a wood, forest; akin to OFries. & OS. wald, D. woud, G. wald, Icel. völlr, a field, and probably to Gr. &unr_; a grove, Skr. vā&unr_;a a garden, inclosure. Cf. Weald. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A wood; a forest. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A plain, or low hill; a country without wood, whether hilly or not. [ 1913 Webster ]

And from his further bank Aetolia's wolds espied. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

The wind that beats the mountain, blows
More softly round the open wold. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Weld. [ 1913 Webster ]

obs. imp. of Will. See Would. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Wolves [ OE. wolf, wulf, AS. wulf; akin to OS. wulf, D. & G. wolf, Icel. ūlfr, Sw. ulf, Dan. ulv, Goth. wulfs, Lith. vilkas, Russ. volk', L. lupus, Gr. ly`kos, Skr. v&rsdot_;ka; also to Gr. "e`lkein to draw, drag, tear in pieces. √286. Cf. Lupine, a., Lyceum.] [1913 Webster]

1. (Zool.) Any one of several species of carnivorous mammal belonging to the genus Canis (family Canidae) 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 (Canis occidentalis), and the prairie wolf, more commonly called coyote. Wolves often hunt in packs, and may thus attack large animals and, rarely, even man. [1913 Webster + PJC]

2. (Zool.) One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths; as, the bee wolf. [1913 Webster]

3. Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door. [1913 Webster]

4. A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries. [1913 Webster]

5. An eating ulcer or sore. Cf. Lupus. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

If God should send a cancer upon thy face, or a wolf into thy side. Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]

6. (Mus.) (a) The harsh, howling sound of some of the chords on an organ or piano tuned by unequal temperament. (b) In bowed instruments, a harshness due to defective vibration in certain notes of the scale. [1913 Webster]

7. (Textile Manuf.) A willying machine. Knight. [1913 Webster]

Black wolf. (Zool.) (a) A black variety of the European wolf which is common in the Pyrenees. (b) A black variety of the American gray wolf. --
Golden wolf (Zool.), the Thibetan wolf (Canis laniger); -- called also chanco. --
Indian wolf (Zool.), an Asiatic wolf (Canis pallipes) which somewhat resembles a jackal. Called also landgak. --
Prairie wolf (Zool.), the coyote. --
Sea wolf. (Zool.) See in the Vocabulary. --
Strand wolf (Zool.) the striped hyena. --
Tasmanian wolf (Zool.), the zebra wolf. --
Tiger wolf (Zool.), the spotted hyena. --
To keep the wolf from the door, to keep away poverty; to prevent starvation. See Wolf, 3, above. Tennyson. --
Wolf dog. (Zool.) (a) The mastiff, or shepherd dog, of the Pyrenees, supposed by some authors to be one of the ancestors of the St. Bernard dog. (b) The Irish greyhound, supposed to have been used formerly by the Danes for chasing wolves. (c) A dog bred between a dog and a wolf, as the Eskimo dog. --
Wolf eel (Zool.), a wolf fish. --
Wolf fish (Zool.), any one of several species of large, voracious marine fishes of the genus Anarrhichas, especially the common species (Anarrhichas lupus) of Europe and North America. These fishes have large teeth and powerful jaws. Called also catfish, sea cat, sea wolf, stone biter, and swinefish. --
Wolf net, a kind of net used in fishing, which takes great numbers of fish. --
Wolf's peach (Bot.), the tomato, or love apple (Lycopersicum esculentum). --
Wolf spider (Zool.), any one of numerous species of running ground spiders belonging to the genus Lycosa, or family Lycosidae. These spiders run about rapidly in search of their prey. Most of them are plain brown or blackish in color. See Illust. in App. --
Zebra wolf (Zool.), a savage carnivorous marsupial (Thylacinus cynocephalus) native of Tasmania; -- called also Tasmanian wolf. [1913 Webster]

n. (Bot.) An American shrub (Symphoricarpus occidentalis) which bears soft white berries. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Discovered, or first described, by Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1733-1794), the founder of modern embryology. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wolffian body, the mesonephros. --
Wolffian duct, the duct from the Wolffian body. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Originally, a large hound used in hunting wolves; now, any one of certain breeds of large dogs, some of which are nearly identical with the great Danes. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Like a wolf; having the qualities or form of a wolf; as, a wolfish visage; wolfish designs. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Wolf"ish*ly, adv. -- Wolf"ish*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A little or young wolf. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A young wolf. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G. ] 1. (Min.) Same as Wolframite. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. same as tungsten. [ PJC ]

n. (Chem.) A salt of wolframic acid; a tungstate. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) Of or pertaining to wolframium. See Tungstic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G., wolframit, wolfram; wolf wolf + rahm cream, soot; cf. G. wolfsruss wolfram, lit., wolf's soot. ] (Min.) Tungstate of iron and manganese, generally of a brownish or grayish black color, submetallic luster, and high specific gravity. It occurs in cleavable masses, and also crystallized. Called also wolfram. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL. See Wolfram. ] (Chem.) The technical name of the element tungsten. See Tungsten. [ 1913 Webster ]

. Same as Tungsten steel. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Bot.) A poisonous plant (Aconitum Lycoctonum), a kind of monkshood; also, by extension, any plant or species of the genus Aconitum. See Aconite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A kind of club moss. See Lycopodium. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) Club moss. See Lycopodium. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) Any kind of spurge (Euphorbia); -- so called from its acrid milky juice. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. See 2d Will. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ After Dr. W. H. Wollaston, an English chemist, who died in 1828. ] (Min.) A silicate of lime of a white to gray, red, or yellow color, occurring generally in cleavable masses, rarely in tabular crystals; tabular spar. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ After W. H. Wollaston, English physicist. ] (Optics) A magnifying glass consisting of two plano-convex lenses. It is designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion. Under "wollastonite" the eponymous inventor is described as a chemist. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. Wool. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ From Wolf, with a dim suffix; prob. so called from its supposed wolfish qualities. ] 1. (Zool.) A carnivorous mammal (Gulo gulo formerly Gulo luscus), of the weasel family Mustelidae, about the size of a large badger; called also glutton and carcajou. It is a native of the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. A nickname for an inhabitant of Michigan. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

. Michigan; -- a nickname. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n., pl. of Wolf. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Wolfish. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]