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Wolf

noun

(pl. wolves)

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

Austrian composer (1860-1903). Synonym: Hugo Wolf.

German classical scholar who claimed that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed by several authors (1759-1824). Synonym: Friedrich August Wolf.

A man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women. Synonyms: masher, skirt chaser, woman chaser.

A cruelly rapacious person. Synonyms: beast, brute, savage, wildcat.

verb

Eat hastily. Synonym: wolf down.

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"Wolf" Quotes from Famous Books

... were set at liberty, almost on this very spot, by a man so valiant that in spite of the guard he released them all. And doubtless he must be out of his wits, or else he must be as great a knave as they, to loose the wolf among the sheep, and rebel against his king by taking from ...

— The Junior Classics, V4 • Willam Patten (Editor)

... to time came the howl of a wolf, a fox, a wild cat, or a coyote, the "Canis latrans," whose name is justified by his ...

— Rubur the Conqueror • Jules Verne

... smothered in flowering dog-roses. I strolled about in the sunset amid tinkling herds of sheep and goats that were presently milked and driven into their enclosure of thorns for the night, guarded by four or five of those savage white dogs of the Campagna breed. Despite these protectors, the wolf carried off two sheep yesterday, in broad daylight. The flocks come to these heights in the middle of June, ...

— Old Calabria • Norman Douglas

... he led the way towards the beach; and aided by the old woman, pointed his warlike weapon. A short pause—it was fired! Rebounding from hill to hill, the echo took its course, startling the peasant from his couch, and the wolf from his lair. ...

— A Love Story • A Bushman

... of men. Then the sail fell down from the yard and was sheeted home and filled with the fair wind as the ship's bows ran up on the first green wave outside the haven. Even therewith the shipmen cast abroad a banner, whereon was done in a green field a grim wolf ramping up against a maiden, and so went ...

— The Wood Beyond the World • William Morris

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