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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