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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.
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