wolf /wŭlf/

1. The common name of certain predatory species of the genus Canis that hunt in packs, including the common wolf (Canis lupus), the grey or timber wolf, and the coyote
2. Anything symbolically seen as a cruelly rapacious or ravenous creature
3. A greedy and cunning person
4. A tuberculous excrescence or cancerous growth (obsolete)
5. A dissonance heard in a keyed instrument tuned by unequal temperament (music)
6. An extraneous non-harmonic note made by the bow on a string of a violin, etc (music)
7. A man who insatiably pursues and seduces women (informal)

(also wolve /wŭlv/) to hunt for wolves

To devour ravenously

wolfˈer or wolvˈer noun

A hunter of wolves

wolfˈing or wolvˈing noun

The hunting of wolves for their skins

wolfˈish or wolvˈish adjective

1. Like a wolf
2. Rapacious
3. Ravenous

wolfˈishly or wolvˈishly adverb

wolfˈkin and wolfˈling noun

A young wolf

wolfˈlike adjective

wolfˈberry noun

1. A N American shrub (Symphoricarpus occidentalis) of the honeysuckle family, with white berries, hairy leaves and pink flowers
2. Another name for goji

wolf cub noun

1. A young wolf
2. (with caps) a member of the former Wolf Cubs (now Cub Scouts), a junior division of the Scout Association

wolf dog noun

1. A dog of a large breed formerly used in hunting wolves and guarding sheep from attack by wolves
2. (wolfˈ-dog) a cross between a wolf and a domestic dog

wolfˈfish noun

(also sea-wolf and catfish) any genus of fierce and voracious salt-water fishes

wolfˈhound noun

Any of several breeds of large domestic dog, such as the Irish wolfhound, formerly used to hunt wolves

wolf note noun (music)

A wolf

wolf pack noun

1. A pack of wolves
2. A flotilla of submarines or group of aircraft sent out to attack enemy targets

wolfsˈbane or wolf's bane noun

An aconite, esp Aconitum lycoctonum

wolf's foot or wolf's claw noun

The club moss (genus Lycopodium)

wolfˈskin noun

The skin or pelt of a wolf

wolf's peach noun

The tomato

wolf spider noun

Any spider of the Lycosa genus, to which the true tarantula belongs, or of the family Lycosidae

wolf tooth noun

A small supernumerary premolar in a horse

wolf whistle noun

A two-note whistle uttered as a coarse expression of admiration, typically by a man at the sight of a woman

wolfˈ-whistle transitive verb and intransitive verb

cry wolf

To give a false alarm, from the story of the boy who cried ‘Wolf’ when there was none, and was not believed when there was one

have (or hold) a wolf by the ears

To be in a desperately difficult situation

have a wolf in the stomach

To be ravenously hungry

keep the wolf from the door

To keep away poverty or hunger

see a wolf

To be tongue-tied (in allusion to an old superstition)

throw or fling to the wolves

To abandon to certain destruction

wolf in sheep's clothing

Someone who behind a kindly and inoffensive exterior is dangerous and unscrupulous

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• uncled
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• unclerical
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