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werewolf
(encz) | werewolf,vlkodlak n: Petr Prášek |
Werewolf
(gcide) | Werewolf \Were"wolf`\, n.; pl. Werewolves. [AS. werwulf; wer a
man + wulf a wolf; cf. G. w[aum]rwolf, w[aum]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.
[1913 Webster]
The werwolf went about his prey. --William of
Palerne.
[1913 Webster]
The brutes that wear our form and face,
The werewolves of the human race. --Longfellow.
[1913 Webster] Werk |
werewolf
(wn) | werewolf
n 1: a monster able to change appearance from human to wolf and
back again [syn: werewolf, wolfman, lycanthrope,
loup-garou] |
werewolf
(devil) | 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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werewolf
(encz) | werewolf,vlkodlak n: Petr Prášek |
werewolf
(wn) | werewolf
n 1: a monster able to change appearance from human to wolf and
back again [syn: werewolf, wolfman, lycanthrope,
loup-garou] |
werewolf
(devil) | 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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