Search the Dictionary

Wonderful; ominous; prodigious. [Obs.] Wollaston.

The zebra wolf. See under Wolf.

of, cattle, dogs, and many other animals. When filled with blood they become ovate, much swollen, and usually livid red in color. Some of the species often attach themselves to the human body. The young are active and have at first but six legs.

fancied resemblance to a tiger in color and markings. Called also tiger cowrie. -- Tiger wolf (Zoöl.), the spotted hyena (Hyæna crocuta). -- Tiger wood, the variegated heartwood of a tree (Machærium Schomburgkii) found in Guiana.

To rend in pieces. [Obs.] The wolf hath many a sheep and lamb to-rent. Chaucer.

A fox; -- probably so named from its bushy tail. The wolf, the tod, the brock. B. Jonson. Tod stove, a close stove adapted for burning small round wood, twigs, etc. [U.S.] Knight.

The act of becoming tumid; the state of being swollen; intumescence.

Slightly tumid; swollen, as certain moss capsules.

A salt of tungstic acid; a wolframate.

A rare element of the chromium group found in certain minerals, as wolfram and scheelite, and isolated as a heavy steel-gray metal which is very hard and infusible. It has both acid and basic properties. When alloyed in small quantities with steel, it greatly increases its hardness. Symbol W (Wolframium). Atomic weight…

Of or pertaining to tungsten; derived from, or resembling, tungsten; wolframic; as, tungstic oxide. Tungstic acid, an acid of tungsten, H2WO4, analogous to sulphuric and chromic acids.

f tungsten, a yellow mineral occurring in a pulverulent form. It is often associated with wolfram.

The act of swelling, or the state of being swollen, or turgescent. Sir T. Browne.

Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated; tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit. A bladder . . . held near the fire grew turgid. Boyle.

To howl, as a dog or a wolf; to wail; as, ululating jackals. Sir T. Herbert.

A howling, as of a dog or wolf; a wailing. He may fright others with his ululation. Wither.

To sink from a swollen state; to subside. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Resembling a bladder; swollen like a bladder; inflated; utricular. Dana.

Irregularly swollen or enlarged; affected with, or containing, varices, or varicosities; of or pertaining to varices, or varicosities; as, a varicose nerve fiber; a varicose vein; varicose ulcers.

corolla. Ventricose shell. (Zoöl.) (a) A spiral shell having the body whorls rounded or swollen in the middle. (b) A bivalve shell in which the valves are strongly convex.