| 释义 |
wolve, v.|wʊlv|
[f. inflexional stem of wolf n.]
1. intr. (also with it). To behave like a wolf, play the wolf.
1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. iii. iii. 187/2 If any Seducers were let loose to wolve it among the good people of Roxbury. a1909E. Thompson Seton Billy i. (C.D. Suppl.) A Wolf was ‘wolving’ on the east side of Sentinel Mountain.
2. Of an organ: To give forth a hollow wailing sound like the howl of a wolf, from deficient wind-supply.
1864Le Fanu Uncle Silas I. xxv. 325 What an awful storm!.. Don't you like the sound? What they used to call ‘wolving’ in the old organ at Dorminster! 1919M. R. James Thin Ghost 130 The organ wolved—you know what I mean: the wind died. |