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WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
THESAURUS

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Noun, Verb (transitive), Verb (intransitive)

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun wolf has 5 senses

wolf(n = noun.animal) - any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs;

canis lupus tundrarum

is a kind of canid, canine

is a member of canis, genus canis

wolf(n = noun.person) hugo wolf - Austrian composer (1860-1903);

is a kind of composer

wolf(n = noun.person) friedrich august wolf - German classical scholar who claimed that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed by several authors (1759-1824);

is a kind of classical scholar, classicist

wolf(n = noun.person) masher, skirt chaser, woman chaser - a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women;

is a kind of philanderer, womaniser, womanizer

wolf(n = noun.person) beast, brute, savage, wildcat - a cruelly rapacious person;

is a kind of aggressor, assailant, assaulter, attacker

Verb wolf has 1 sense

wolf(v = verb.consumption) wolf down - eat hastily; "The teenager wolfed down the pizza"

is one way to eat

Sample sentence:
They wolf more bread

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CIDE DICTIONARY

wolf, n. [OE. wolf, wulf, AS. wulf; akin to OS. wulf, D. & G. wolf, Icel. , Sw. ulf, Dan. ulv, Goth. wulfs, Lith. vilkas, Russ. volk', L. lupus, Gr. ly`kos, Skr. v; also to Gr. "e`lkein to draw, drag, tear in pieces. Lupine, a., Lyceum.].

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. [1913 Webster]

One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvæ of several species of beetles and grain moths; as, the bee wolf. [1913 Webster]

Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door. [1913 Webster]

A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries. [1913 Webster]

An eating ulcer or sore. Cf. Lupus. [1913 Webster]
"If God should send a cancer upon thy face, or a wolf into thy side." [1913 Webster]

The harsh, howling sound of some of the chords on an organ or piano tuned by unequal temperament. [1913 Webster]

A willying machine. Knight. [1913 Webster]

Black wolf. (Zoöl.) (a) A black variety of the European wolf which is common in the Pyrenees. (b) A black variety of the American gray wolf. -- Golden wolf (Zoöl.), the Thibetan wolf (Canis laniger); -- called also chanco. -- Indian wolf (Zoöl.), an Asiatic wolf (Canis pallipes) which somewhat resembles a jackal. Called also landgak. -- Prairie wolf (Zoöl.), the coyote. -- Sea wolf. (Zoöl.) See in the Vocabulary. -- Strand wolf (Zoöl.) the striped hyena. -- Tasmanian wolf (Zoöl.), the zebra wolf. -- Tiger wolf (Zoöl.), the spotted hyena. -- To keep the wolf from the door, to keep away poverty; to prevent starvation. See Wolf, 3, above. Tennyson. -- Wolf dog. (Zoöl.) (a) The mastiff, or shepherd dog, of the Pyrenees, supposed by some authors to be one of the ancestors of the St. Bernard dog. (b) The Irish greyhound, supposed to have been used formerly by the Danes for chasing wolves. (c) A dog bred between a dog and a wolf, as the Eskimo dog. -- Wolf eel (Zoöl.), a wolf fish. -- Wolf fish (Zoöl.), any one of several species of large, voracious marine fishes of the genus Anarrhichas, especially the common species (Anarrhichas lupus) of Europe and North America. These fishes have large teeth and powerful jaws. Called also catfish, sea cat, sea wolf, stone biter, and swinefish. -- Wolf net, a kind of net used in fishing, which takes great numbers of fish. -- Wolf's peach (Bot.), the tomato, or love apple (Lycopersicum esculentum). -- Wolf spider (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of running ground spiders belonging to the genus Lycosa, or family Lycosidæ. These spiders run about rapidly in search of their prey. Most of them are plain brown or blackish in color. See Illust. in App. -- Zebra wolf (Zoöl.), a savage carnivorous marsupial (Thylacinus cynocephalus) native of Tasmania; -- called also Tasmanian wolf.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

wolf, n. & v.
--n. (pl. wolves)
1 a wild flesh-eating tawny-grey mammal related to the dog, esp. Canis lupus, preying on sheep etc. and hunting in packs.
2 sl. a man given to seducing women.
3 a rapacious or greedy person.
4 Mus. a a jarring sound from some notes in a bowed instrument. b an out-of-tune effect when playing certain chords on old organs (before the present 'equal temperament' was in use).
--v.tr. (often foll. by down) devour (food) greedily.

Idiom

cry wolf raise repeated false alarms (so that a genuine one is disregarded). have (or hold) a wolf by the ears be in a precarious position. keep the wolf from the door avert hunger or starvation. lone wolf a person who prefers to act alone. throw to the wolves sacrifice without compunction. wolf-cub
1 a young wolf.
2 Brit. the former name for a Cub Scout. wolf-fish any large voracious blenny of the genus Anarrhichas. wolf in sheep's clothing a hostile person who pretends friendship. wolf-pack an attacking group of submarines or aircraft. wolf's-milk spurge. wolf-spider any ground-dwelling spider of the family Lycosidae, hunting instead of trapping its prey. wolf-whistle n. a sexually admiring whistle by a man to a woman.
--v.intr. make a wolf-whistle.

Derivative

wolfish adj. wolfishly adv. wolflike adj. & adv.

Etymology

OE wulf f. Gmc

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THESAURUS

wolf
African hunting dog, Cape hunting dog, Casanova, Don Juan, Lothario, Mafioso, Young Turk, amorist, atonalism, atonality, batten, beast, beldam, bolt, bolt down, bomber, brush wolf, brute, cacophony, chaser, clinker, coyote, cram, debauchee, demon, devil, devour, dingo, discord, discordance, discordancy, disharmony, dissonance, dissonancy, dissonant chord, dragon, engorge, fiend, fire-eater, firebrand, flatness, fool around, fox, fury, gallant, gay deceiver, gay dog, glut, gluttonize, gobble, goon, gorge, gorilla, gormandize, gulp, gulp down, gunsel, guttle, guzzle, hardnose, heartbreaker, hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhound, hellion, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hothead, hotspur, hyena, incendiary, ingurgitate, inharmoniousness, inharmony, jackal, killer, lady-killer, lecher, libertine, live to eat, lobo, lover-boy, mad dog, madcap, masher, medicine wolf, mess around, monster, mugger, off note, philander, philanderer, play around, prairie wolf, profligate, rake, rakehell, rapist, raven, revolutionary, reynard, rip, roue, rounder, savage, seducer, sharpness, she-wolf, skirt chaser, slop, slosh, sour note, sourness, spitfire, stridor, stuff, swinger, termagant, terror, terrorist, tiger, tigress, timber wolf, tough, tough guy, tunelessness, ugly customer, unharmoniousness, unmusicality, untunefulness, violent, virago, vixen, walking phallus, wanton, wild beast, witch, wolf down, woman chaser, womanize, womanizer

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