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Wolf

The wolf (Canis lupus), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America. More than thirty subspecies of Canis lupus have been recognized, and gray wolves, as colloquially understood, comprise non-domestic/feral subspecies.

Wolfe

Obsolete spelling of wolf

Wolf

Any of several carnivorous mammals of the genus Canis, especially the gray wolf of northern regions, that typically live and hunt in packs.

Wolfe

United States writer who has written extensively on American culture (born in 1931)

Wolf

The fur of such an animal.
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Wolfe

United States writer best known for his autobiographical novels (1900-1938)

Wolf

Any of various similar or related mammals, such as the hyena.

Wolf

The destructive larva of any of various moths, beetles, or flies.

Wolf

One that is regarded as predatory, rapacious, and fierce.

Wolf

(Slang)A man who habitually makes aggressive sexual advances to women.
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Wolf

A harshness in some tones of a bowed stringed instrument produced by defective vibration.

Wolf

Dissonance in perfect fifths on a keyboard instrument tuned to a system of unequal temperament.

Wolf

To eat greedily or voraciously:"The town's big shots were ... wolfing down the buffet"(Ralph Ellison).

Wolf

Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.

Wolf

Any of several related canines that resemble Canis lupus in appearance, especially those of the genus Canis.

Wolf

A man who makes amorous advances to many women.

Wolf

(music) A wolf tone or wolf note.
The soft violin solo was marred by persistent wolves.

Wolf

(figurative) Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.
They toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.
The bee wolf

Wolf

One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.

Wolf

A white worm which infests granaries, the larva of Nemapogon granella, a tineid moth.

Wolf

A wolf spider.

Wolf

(obsolete) An eating ulcer or sore. See lupus.

Wolf

A willying machine, to cleanse wool or willow.

Wolf

(transitive) To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously.

Wolf

To make amorous advances to many women; to hit on women; to cruise for sex.

Wolf

(intransitive) To hunt for wolves.

Wolf

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 (Canis occidentalis), and the prairie wolf, or coyote. Wolves often hunt in packs, and may thus attack large animals and even man.

Wolf

One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvæ of several species of beetles and grain moths; as, the bee wolf.

Wolf

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

A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.

Wolf

An eating ulcer or sore. Cf. Lupus.
If God should send a cancer upon thy face, or a wolf into thy side.

Wolf

The harsh, howling sound of some of the chords on an organ or piano tuned by unequal temperament.

Wolf

A willying machine.

Wolf

Any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs

Wolf

Austrian composer (1860-1903)

Wolf

German classical scholar who claimed that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed by several authors (1759-1824)

Wolf

A man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women

Wolf

A cruelly rapacious person

Wolf

Eat hastily;
The teenager wolfed down the pizza

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