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- English Word Wol Definition See 2d Will.
- English Word Wold Definition A wood; a forest.
- English Word Wold Definition A plain, or low hill; a country without wood, whether hilly or not.
- English Word Wold Definition See Weld.
- English Word Wolde Definition imp. of Will. See Would.
- English Word Wolf Definition 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.
- English Word Wolf Definition One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths; as, the bee wolf.
- English Word Wolf Definition Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.
- English Word Wolf Definition A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.
- English Word Wolf Definition An eating ulcer or sore. Cf. Lupus.
- English Word Wolf Definition The harsh, howling sound of some of the chords on an organ or piano tuned by unequal temperament.
- English Word Wolf Definition In bowed instruments, a harshness due to defective vibration in certain notes of the scale.
- English Word Wolf Definition A willying machine.
- English Word Wolf's-claw Definition A kind of club moss. See Lycopodium.
- English Word Wolf's-foot Definition Club moss. See Lycopodium.
- English Word Wolf's-milk Definition Any kind of spurge (Euphorbia); -- so called from its acrid milky juice.
- English Word Wolfberry Definition An American shrub (Symphoricarpus occidentalis) which bears soft white berries.
- English Word Wolffian Definition Discovered, or first described, by Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1733-1794), the founder of modern embryology.
- English Word Wolfish Definition Like a wolf; having the qualities or form of a wolf; as, a wolfish visage; wolfish designs.
- English Word Wolfkin Definition A little or young wolf.
- English Word Wolfling Definition A young wolf.
- English Word Wolfram Definition Same as Wolframite.
- English Word Wolframate Definition A salt of wolframic acid; a tungstate.
- English Word Wolframic Definition Of or pertaining to wolframium. See Tungstic.
- English Word Wolframite Definition Tungstate of iron and manganese, generally of a brownish or grayish black color, submetallic luster, and high specific gravity. It occurs in cleavable masses, and also crystallized. Called also wolfram.
- English Word Wolframium Definition The technical name of the element tungsten. See Tungsten.
- English Word Wolfsbane Definition A poisonous plant (Aconitum Lycoctonum), a kind of monkshood; also, by extension, any plant or species of the genus Aconitum. See Aconite.
- English Word Woll Definition See 2d Will.
- English Word Wollastonite Definition A silicate of lime of a white to gray, red, or yellow color, occurring generally in cleavable masses, rarely in tabular crystals; tabular spar.
- English Word Wolle Definition Wool.