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See 2d Will. [Obs.]

A magnifying glass consisting of two plano-convex lenses. It is designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion.

A silicate of lime of a white to gray, red, or yellow color, occurring generally in cleavable masses, rarely in tabular crystals; tabular spar.

Wool. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Michigan; -- a nickname.

The glutton.

pl. of Wolf.

Wolfish. Shak.

A carnivorous quadruped (Proteles Lalandii), of South Africa, resembling the fox and hyena. See Proteles.

Cuckold. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An open country abounding in sheepcotes, as in the Cotswold hills, in Gloucestershire, England. Cotswold sheep, a long-wooled breed of sheep, formerly common in the counties of Gloucester, Hereford, and Worcester, Eng.; -- so called from the Cotswold Hills. The breed is now chiefly amalgamated with others.…

A half wolf; a mongrel dog, between a dog and a wolf.

The wolf fish.

Enlarged by swelling; immoderately increased; as, swollen eyes; swollen streams.

Contraction of Swollen, p. p. Milton.

Threshold. [Obs.]

See Werewolf.

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 f…

The herb wolfsbane, or monkshood; -- applied to any plant of the genus Aconitum (tribe Hellebore), all the species of which are poisonous.

A wolfhound. [Obs.] Chaucer.