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Wolf
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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.
Wolf
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One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths; as, the bee wolf.
Wolf
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Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.
Wolf
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A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.
Wolf
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An eating ulcer or sore. Cf. Lupus.
Wolf
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The harsh, howling sound of some of the chords on an organ or piano tuned by unequal temperament.
Wolf
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In bowed instruments, a harshness due to defective vibration in certain notes of the scale.
Wolf
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A willying machine.
Wolfberry
n.
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An American shrub (Symphoricarpus occidentalis) which bears soft white berries.
Wolffian
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Discovered, or first described, by Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1733-1794), the founder of modern embryology.
Wolfish
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Like a wolf; having the qualities or form of a wolf; as, a wolfish visage; wolfish designs.
Wolfkin
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A little or young wolf.
Wolfling
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A young wolf.
Wolfram
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Same as Wolframite.
Wolframate
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A salt of wolframic acid; a tungstate.
Wolframic
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Of or pertaining to wolframium. See Tungstic.
Wolframite
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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.
Wolframium
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The technical name of the element tungsten. See Tungsten.
Wolfsbane
n.
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A poisonous plant (Aconitum Lycoctonum), a kind of monkshood; also, by extension, any plant or species of the genus Aconitum. See Aconite.
Wolf's-claw
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A kind of club moss. See Lycopodium.
Wolf's-foot
n.
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Club moss. See Lycopodium.
Wolf's-milk
n.
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Any kind of spurge (Euphorbia); -- so called from its acrid milky juice.
Woll
v. t. & i.
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See 2d Will.
Wollastonite
n.
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A silicate of lime of a white to gray, red, or yellow color, occurring generally in cleavable masses, rarely in tabular crystals; tabular spar.
Wolle
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Wool.
Wolverene
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Alt. of Wolverine
Wolverine
n.
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The glutton.
Wolverine
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A nickname for an inhabitant of Michigan.
Wolves
n.
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pl. of Wolf.
Wolvish
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Wolfish.