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noun. Any of several carnivorous mammals of the genus Canis, especially the gray wolf of northern regions, that typically live and hunt in packs.

noun. The fur of such an animal.

noun. Any of various similar or related mammals, such as the hyena.

noun. The destructive larva of any of various moths, beetles, or flies.

noun. One that is regarded as predatory, rapacious, and fierce.

noun. A man who habitually makes aggressive sexual advances to women.

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noun. A harshness in some tones of a bowed stringed instrument produced by defective vibration.

noun. Dissonance in perfect fifths on a keyboard instrument tuned to a system of unequal temperament.

transitive verb. To eat greedily or voraciously.

idiom. (wolf at the door) Creditors or a creditor.

idiom. (wolf in sheep's clothing) One who feigns congeniality while actually holding malevolent intentions.

To hunt for wolves.

To devour ravenously: as, to wolf down food.

noun. A digitigrade carnivorous canine quadruped, Cants lupus, of the lupine or thoöid series of Canidæ; hence, some similar animal.

noun. A person noted for ravenousness, cruelty, cunning, or the like: used in opprobrium.

noun. In entomology:

noun. A small naked caterpillar, the larva of Tinea granella, the wolf-moth, which infests granaries.

noun. The larva of a bot-fly; a warble.

noun. A tuberculous excrescence which rapidly eats away the flesh. See lupus, 3.

noun. In music:

noun. The harsh discord heard in certain chords of keyboard-instruments, especially the organ, when tuned on some system of unequal temperament.

noun. A chord or interval in which such a discord appears.

noun. In instruments of the viol class, a discordant or false vibration in a string when stopped at a certain point, usually due to a defect in the structure or adjustment of the instrument. Sometimes called wolf-note.

noun. A wooden fence placed across a ditch in the corner of a field, to prevent cattle from straying into another field by means of the ditch.

noun. Same as willow.

noun. 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 (Canis occidentalis), and the prairie wolf, or coyote. Wolves often hunt in packs, and may thus attack large animals and even man.

noun. One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvæ of several species of beetles and grain moths.

noun. Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.

noun. A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.

noun. An eating ulcer or sore. Cf. Lupus.

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

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

noun. A willying machine.

noun. A black variety of the American gray wolf.

noun. the Thibetan wolf (Canis laniger); -- called also chanco.

noun. an Asiatic wolf (Canis pallipes) which somewhat resembles a jackal. Called also landgak.

noun. the coyote.

noun. See in the Vocabulary.

noun. the striped hyena.

noun. the zebra wolf.

noun. the spotted hyena.

noun. to keep away poverty; to prevent starvation. See Wolf, 3, above.

noun. A dog bred between a dog and a wolf, as the Eskimo dog.

noun. a wolf fish.

noun. 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.

noun. a kind of net used in fishing, which takes great numbers of fish.

noun. the tomato, or love apple (Lycopersicum esculentum).

"Of all these the grey wolf is the most common, and is _par excellence the wolf_; but there are districts in which individuals of other colours predominate."

barking wolf  black wolf  dark as a wolf's mouth  golden wolf  gray wolf  

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Wolfe  Wolff  Woolf  wolfe  

bear  beast  bull  cat  deer  

African hunting dog  Cape hunting dog  Casanova  Don Juan  Lothario  

Lupus  wolves  

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