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Wolf   /wʊlf/   Listen
Wolf

noun
(pl. wolves)
1.
Any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs.
2.
Austrian composer (1860-1903).  Synonym: Hugo Wolf.
3.
German classical scholar who claimed that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed by several authors (1759-1824).  Synonym: Friedrich August Wolf.
4.
A man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women.  Synonyms: masher, skirt chaser, woman chaser.
5.
A cruelly rapacious person.  Synonyms: beast, brute, savage, wildcat.
verb
1.
Eat hastily.  Synonym: wolf down.



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"Wolf" Quotes from Famous Books



... tamed, the horse which once roved wild submits to have a saddle on his back, and a bit in his mouth. The cow gives her milk and her meat, and the sheep both wool and meat, for the nourishment and the clothing of man; the dog, which, when wild, was fierce as his brother the wolf, has become the friend and companion of man; even the gigantic elephant has become docile, and the Indian mother leaves her babe under its charge, that the monster may brush away the flies from the ...
— The Village Pulpit, Volume II. Trinity to Advent • S. Baring-Gould

... news! An outbreak, long smouldering, had just occurred at the great reservation of the Spirit Wolf; the agent and several of his men had been massacred, their women carried away into a captivity whose horrors beggar all description, and two troops—hardly sixscore men—of Colonel Stanley's regiment were already in pursuit. Leaving his daughter ...
— Starlight Ranch - and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier • Charles King

... swindler, that application had been made by Philip for news of his brother, and having also learned before, from the same person, that Philip had been implicated in the sale of a horse, swindled, if not stolen, he saw every additional reason to widen the stream that flowed between the wolf and the lamb. The older Sidney grew, the better he comprehended and appreciated the motives of his protector—for he was brought up in a formal school of propriety and ethics, and his mind naturally revolted from all images of violence or fraud. Mr. ...
— Night and Morning, Volume 2 • Edward Bulwer Lytton

... with us in return. We sat down in the bazaar, and were a spectacle to all. How much we longed to have the Arabic tongue, that we might preach the unsearchable riches of Christ in God's own land! Same evening we heard the cry of the wolf, and encamped two miles from Gaza. The plague was raging, so we did not enter, but spent a delightful day in comparing its condition with God's word concerning it: 'Baldness is come upon Gaza.' The old city is buried under sand-hills, without a ...
— The Biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne • Andrew A. Bonar

... the officer turned to the sergeant-major and said with a sigh, "Damned nuisances they are! Now we've got two of these fellows, Wolf and Weise, we must see they don't get together. How is ...
— 'Jena' or 'Sedan'? • Franz Beyerlein


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