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单词 wolfs-head
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wolf's-headwolf-headn.

Brit. /ˈwʊlfshɛd/, U.S. /ˈwʊlfsˌ(h)ɛd/ Brit. /ˈwʊlfhɛd/, U.S. /ˈwʊlfˌ(h)ɛd/
Forms: see wolf n. and head n.1
1. The head of a wolf; a figure of this, e.g. as a heraldic bearing.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > [noun] > genus Canis > canis lupus (wolf) > parts of
wolf's-headc1000
stern1575
wolf's-milk1847
society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic representations of creatures > [noun] > parts of creatures > wolf's head
wolf's-head1586
c1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 360 To slæpe, wulfes heafod lege under þone pyle.
?a1400 Morte Arth. 1093 Alle falterde þe flesche in his foule lyppys, Ilke wrethe as a wolfe-hevede, it wraythe owtt at ones!
1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie 230 Hugh the firste Earle of Chester, was surnamed de Loupe, because he bare a Wolfes head in his shield.
1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. xv. 145 Hee beareth Azure, two Barres, Argent, on a Canton Sable, a Wolues head Errased of the second.
1875 F. T. Buckland Log-bk. Fisherman 5 A young man holding a wolf's head high up in the air.
1891 Daily Tel. 16 Apr. 7/2 Minnesota spent last year twenty-five thousand dollars in bounties on wolf-heads brought in.
2. Anglo-Saxon Law. A cry for the pursuit of an outlaw as one to be hunted down like a wolf; transferred (originally in to cry wolf's head) an outlaw.17th century law books have various corrupt forms, as wolferfod, woolfeshered, woolferthfod, wolfetchsod.
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society > law > law enforcement > in force [phrase] > cry for pursuit of outlaw
wolf's-head?c1300
society > authority > punishment > outlawry > [noun] > outlaw
outlawOE
friendless manOE
wolf's-head?c1300
waithmanc1425
banished man1495
broken man1528
proscript1576
horner1590
outlawed1644
caput lupinum1837
ronin1858
society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > exclusion from society > [noun] > rendering outcast > outcast > outlaw
flemeOE
outlawOE
wolf's-head?c1300
waithmanc1425
caput lupinum1837
ronin1858
owl-hoot1934
c1000 Laws Edw. Conf. vi Lupinum enim gerit caput a die utlagationis sue, quod ab Anglis uulfesheued nominatur.]
?c1300 Mirr. Justices iv. iv. (Selden Soc.) 125 E point ne vient, qe des adunc le tiegne lem pur lou e est criable Wolvesheved, pur ceo qe lou est beste haie de tote gent.
c1400 Gamelyn (Harl.) 700 Whan Gamelyn her lorde wolues-heed was cryed & made.
1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes vii. 1261 Out of ther court banyshed was prudence,..Cried woluis hed was vertuous sobirnesse.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxi. 257 Now wols-hede and outhorne On the be tane!
1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. i. 55 By that time I shall be a wolf's head, and out of the law.
1914 Blackwood's Mag. Jan. 95/2 Vengeance on these cruel wolfheads.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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