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- 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.