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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

... retorted: "Your English generosity could wish your countrymen no better luck than that my Lugarenos, as your worship pleases to call them, should miss their way. They are hungry for loot—with much fasting. And it is hunger that makes your wolf fly straight at ...

— Romance • Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer

... wild animals, and she is successful in the illustration of books. Her pictures are in private collections. At the Royal Academy in 1903 she exhibited "The Day of Reckoning," a wolf pursued by hunters through a forest in snow. A second shows a snow scene, with a wolf baying, while two others are apparently listening to him. "While the wolf, in nightly prowl, bays the moon with hideous howl," is the legend with ...

— Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. • Clara Erskine Clement

... was clear. The engineer had put a spoke in the fellow's wheel. Then I walked to the door and saw the two get into a car and start on the trail this way. After that, I resumed my supper. You perceive, the man had taken the girl away from the wolf." ...

— In the Shadow of the Hills • George C. Shedd

... affection, she was filled with the gall of disappointment, and with spite against the man who had taught her son how worse than foolish it is to aspire to teach before one has learned; nor did she fail to cast scathing reflections on her husband, in that he had brought home a viper in his bosom, a wolf into his fold, the wretched minion of a worldly church to lead her son away captive at his will; and partly no doubt from his last uncomfortable sermons, but mainly from the play of Mrs Marshal's tongue on her husband's tympanum, the deacons in full conclave agreed that no ...

— The Marquis of Lossie • George MacDonald

... uns," I says: "and we went to where we could look, and there was a young wolf cub, getting slowly down. Let's fetch the young squire," I says; "and we come after you, for I thought you'd like to have ...

— The Black Tor - A Tale of the Reign of James the First • George Manville Fenn

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