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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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WOLF'S-CLAW n.
A kind of club moss. See Lycopodium.
WOLF'S-FOOT n.
Club moss. See Lycopodium.
WOLF'S-MILK n.
Any kind of spurge (Euphorbia); -- so called from its acrid milky juice.
WOLFBERRY n.
An American shrub (Symphoricarpus occidentalis) which bears soft white berries.
WOLFFIAN n.
Discovered, or first described, by Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1733-1794), the founder of modern embryology. Wolffian body, the mesonephros. -- Wolffian duct, the duct from the Wolffian body.
WOLFHOUND n.
Originally, a large hound used in hunting wolves; now, any one of certain breeds of large dogs, some of which are nearly identical with the great Danes.
WOLFISH a.
Like a wolf; having the qualities or form of a wolf; as, a wolfish visage; wolfish designs. -- Wolf"ish*ly, adv. -- Wolf"ish*ness, n.
WOLFKIN n.
A little or young wolf. Tennyson.
WOLFLING n.
A young wolf. Carlyle.
WOLFRAM n.
Same as Wolframite.
WOLFRAM STEEL n.
Same as Tungsten steel.
WOLFRAMATE n.
A salt of wolframic acid; a tungstate.
WOLFRAMIC a.
Of or pertaining to wolframium. See Tungstic.
WOLFRAMITE n.
high specific gravity. It occurs in cleavable masses, and also crystallized. Called also wolfram.
WOLFRAMIUM n.
The technical name of the element tungsten. See Tungsten.
WOLFSBANE n.
A poisonous plant (Aconitum Lycoctonum), a kind of monkshood; also, by extension, any plant or species of the genus Aconitum. See Aconite.
WOLL v.
See 2d Will. [Obs.]
WOLLASTON'S DOUBLET n.
A magnifying glass consisting of two plano-convex lenses. It is designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion.
WOLLASTONITE n.
A silicate of lime of a white to gray, red, or yellow color, occurring generally in cleavable masses, rarely in tabular crystals; tabular spar.
WOLLE n.
Wool. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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