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
Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know.
Plautus
It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
Thomas Fuller
A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.
William Congreve
Man is to man either a god or a wolf.
Desiderius Erasmus
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
William Ralph Inge
There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
David Herbert Lawrence
If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.
Nikita Khrushchev
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
The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.
Marshall McLuhan
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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