Definition of Wolf

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Definition of Wolf

Wolf

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 (C. occidentalis), and the prairie wolf, or coyote. Wolves often hunt in packs, and may thus attack large animals and even man.

One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths; as, the bee wolf.

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

A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.

An eating ulcer or sore. Cf. Lupus.

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

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

A willying machine.

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Wolf Quotations

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.
Tennessee Williams

If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.
Nikita Khrushchev

The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.
Marshall McLuhan

It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.
Virgil

A clear cold morning with high wind: we caught in a trap a large gray wolf, and last night obtained in the same way a fox who had for some time infested the neighbourhood of the fort.
Meriwether Lewis

A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.
William Congreve

Crying wolf is a real danger.
David Attenborough

Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know.
Titus Maccius Plautus

Man is to man either a god or a wolf.
Desiderius Erasmus

Wolf Translations

wolf in Afrikaans is wolf
wolf in Danish is ulv
wolf in Dutch is wolf
wolf in Finnish is susi
wolf in French is loup
wolf in German is Wolf
wolf in Hungarian is nagy kan, farkas
wolf in Italian is lupo
wolf in Latin is lupus
wolf in Portuguese is lobo
wolf in Spanish is lobo
wolf in Swedish is varg, ulv

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