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n. Either of two carnivorous mammals of the family Canidae, especially the gray wolf of northern regions, that typically live and hunt in hierarchical packs and prey on livestock and game animals.

n. The fur of such an animal.

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

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

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

n. Slang A man given to paying unwanted sexual attention to women.

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

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

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

idiom. wolf at the door Creditors or a creditor.

idiom. wolf in sheep's clothing One who feigns congeniality while actually holding malevolent intentions.

n. A large wild canid of certain subspecies of Canis lupus.

n. A man who makes amorous advances on many women.

n. A wolf tone or wolf note; an unpleasant tone produced when a note matches the natural resonating frequency of the body of a musical instrument, the quality of which may be likened to the howl of a wolf.

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

n. 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.

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

n. Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.

n. A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.

n. An eating ulcer or sore. Cf. Lupus.

n.

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

n. In bowed instruments, a harshness due to defective vibration in certain notes of the scale.

n. A willying machine.

n. A digitigrade carnivorous canine quadruped, Cants lupus, of the lupine or thoöid series of Canidæ; hence, some similar animal.

n. A person noted for ravenousness, cruelty, cunning, or the like: used in opprobrium.

n. In entomology:

n. A small naked caterpillar, the larva of Tinea granella, the wolf-moth, which infests granaries.

n. The larva of a bot-fly; a warble.

n. A tuberculous excrescence which rapidly eats away the flesh. See lupus, 3.

n. In music:

n. The harsh discord heard in certain chords of keyboard-instruments, especially the organ, when tuned on some system of unequal temperament.

n. A chord or interval in which such a discord appears.

n. In instruments of the viol class, a discordant or false vibration in a string when stopped at a certain point, usually due to a defect in the structure or adjustment of the instrument. Sometimes called wolf-note.

n. A wooden fence placed across a ditch in the corner of a field, to prevent cattle from straying into another field by means of the ditch.

n. Same as willow.

To hunt for wolves.

To devour ravenously: as, to wolf down food.

n. any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs

n. Austrian composer (1860-1903)

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

v. eat hastily

n. a cruelly rapacious person

n. a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women

"Of all these the grey wolf is the most common, and is _par excellence the wolf_; but there are districts in which individuals of other colours predominate."

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marsupial wolf    black wolf    to have a wolf by the ears    to have a wolf in the stomach    marine wolf    red wolf    indian wolf    throat    to cry wolf    tasmanlan wolf   

wolves    Lupus   

starvation    whelp    cub    wolfkin    wolfling    isegrim    isgrin    lobo    coyote    hyena   

Wolfe    Wolff    Woolf    wolfe   

lion    beast    fox    dragon    cat    deer    bear    monster    rat    elephant