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Wolf :: Wolf (a.) 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''s-foot :: Wolf's-foot (n.) Club moss. See Lycopodium.

Aard-wolf :: Aard-wolf (n.) A carnivorous quadruped (Proteles Lalandii), of South Africa, resembling the fox and hyena. See Proteles..

Parovarium :: Parovarium (n.) A group of tubules, a remnant of the Wolffian body, often found near the ovary or oviduct; the epoophoron..

Sea Wolf :: Sea wolf () A sea lion.

Wolffian :: Wolffian (a.) Discovered, or first described, by Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1733-1794), the founder of modern embryology..

Loups :: Loups (n. pl.) The Pawnees, a tribe of North American Indians whose principal totem was the wolf..

Howl :: Howl (n.) The protracted, mournful cry of a dog or a wolf, or other like sound..

Fragmentist :: Fragmentist (n.) A writer of fragments; as, the fragmentist of Wolfenbuttel..

Jackal :: "Jackal (n.) Any one of several species of carnivorous animals inhabiting Africa and Asia, related to the dog and wolf. They are cowardly, nocturnal, and gregarious. They feed largely on carrion, and are noted for their piercing and dismal howling..

Demiwolf :: Demiwolf (n.) A half wolf; a mongrel dog, between a dog and a wolf..

Wolf''s-milk :: Wolf's-milk (n.) Any kind of spurge (Euphorbia); -- so called from its acrid milky juice.

Digitigrade :: Digitigrade (n.) An animal that walks on its toes, as the cat, lion, wolf, etc.; -- distinguished from a plantigrade, which walks on the palm of the foot..

Mark :: Mark (v. t.) To be a mark upon; to designate; to indicate; -- used literally and figuratively; as, this monument marks the spot where Wolfe died; his courage and energy marked him for a leader..

Fox :: Fox (n.) A sword; -- so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox..

Werewolf :: Werewolf (n.) A person transformed into a wolf in form and appetite, either temporarily or permanently, whether by supernatural influences, by witchcraft, or voluntarily; a lycanthrope. Belief in werewolves, formerly general, is not now extinct..

Staging :: Staghound (n.) A large and powerful hound formerly used in hunting the stag, the wolf, and other large animals. The breed is nearly extinct..

Wolf :: Wolf (a.) One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths; as, the bee wolf..

Dingo :: Dingo (n.) A wild dog found in Australia, but supposed to have introduced at a very early period. It has a wolflike face, bushy tail, and a reddish brown color..

Thylacine :: Thylacine (n.) The zebra wolf. See under Wolf.

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