Definition of wolf

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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..

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Tungsten :: Tungsten (n.) A rare element of the chromium group found in certain minerals, as wolfram and scheelite, and isolated as a heavy steel-gray metal which is very hard and infusible. It has both acid and basic properties. When alloyed in small quantities with steel, it greatly increases its hardness. Symbol W (Wolframium). Atomic weight, 183.6. Specific gravity, 18..
Sea Wolf :: Sea wolf () The European sea perch.
Wolfberry :: Wolfberry (n.) An American shrub (Symphoricarpus occidentalis) which bears soft white berries.
Lupine :: Lupine (n.) Wolfish; ravenous.
Thylacine :: Thylacine (n.) The zebra wolf. See under Wolf.
Wolf''s-foot :: Wolf's-foot (n.) Club moss. See Lycopodium.
Aconite :: Aconite (n.) The herb wolfsbane, or monkshood; -- applied to any plant of the genus Aconitum (tribe Hellebore), all the species of which are poisonous..
Wolf :: Wolf (a.) In bowed instruments, a harshness due to defective vibration in certain notes of the scale..
Wolf :: Wolf (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..
Dingo :: Dingo (n.) A wild dog found in Australia, but supposed to have introduced at a very early period. It has a wolflike face, bushy tail, and a reddish brown color..
Cursores :: Cursores (n. pl.) A group of running spiders; the wolf spiders.
Parepididymis :: Parepididymis (n.) A small body containing convoluted tubules, situated near the epididymis in man and some other animals, and supposed to be a remnant of the anterior part of the Wolffian body..
Mesonephric :: Mesonephric (a.) Of or pertaining to the mesonephros; as, the mesonephric, or Wolffian, duct..
Mesonephros :: Mesonephros (n.) The middle one of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in most vertebrates; the Wolffian body.
Aard-wolf :: Aard-wolf (n.) A carnivorous quadruped (Proteles Lalandii), of South Africa, resembling the fox and hyena. See Proteles..
Wolf''s-claw :: Wolf's-claw (n.) A kind of club moss. See Lycopodium.
Lycanthropy :: Lycanthropy (n.) A kind of erratic melancholy, in which the patient imagines himself a wolf, and imitates the actions of that animal..
Tungstic :: Tungstic (a.) Of or pertaining to tungsten; derived from, or resembling, tungsten; wolframic; as, tungstic oxide..
Wehrwolf :: Wehrwolf (n.) See Werewolf.
Wolffian :: Wolffian (a.) Discovered, or first described, by Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1733-1794), the founder of modern embryology..
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