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werewolves |
1 definition 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.
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