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werewolf |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Werewolf \Were"wolf`\, n.; pl {Werewolves}. [AS. werwulf wer a man + wulf a wolf; cf G. w["a]rwolf, w["a]hrwolf, wehrwolf, a werewolf, MHG. werwolf. [root]285. See {Were} a man, and {Wolf}, and cf {Virile}, {World}.] A person transformed into a wolf in form and appetite, either temporarily or permanently, whether by supernatural influences, by witchcraft, or voluntarily; a lycanthrope. Belief in werewolves, formerly general, is not now extinct. The werwolf went about his prey. --William of Palerne The brutes that wear our form and face, The werewolves of the human race. --Longfellow. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: werewolf n : a monster able to change appearance from human to wolf [syn: {wolfman}, {lycanthrope}] From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: WEREWOLF, n. A wolf that was once, or is sometimes a man. All werewolves are of evil disposition, having assumed a bestial form to gratify a beastial appetite, but some transformed by sorcery, are as humane and is consistent with an acquired taste for human flesh. Some Bavarian peasants having caught a wolf one evening, tied it to a post by the tail and went to bed. The next morning nothing was there! Greatly perplexed, they consulted the local priest, who told them that their captive was undoubtedly a werewolf and had resumed its human for during the night. "The next time that you take a wolf," the good man said "see that you chain it by the leg, and in the morning you will find a Lutheran."
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