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inwardly; internally. "The wound festers within." Carew. Ills from within thy reason must prevent. Dryden.

(Zoöl.), the spotted hyena. -- To keep the wolf from the door, to keep away poverty; to prevent starvation. See Wolf, 3, above. Tennyson. -- Wolf dog. (Zoöl.) (a) The mastiff, or shepherd dog, of the Pyrenees, supposed by some authors to be one of the ancestors of the St. Bernard dog. (b) The Irish greyhound, suppos…

omen formed in the United States in 1874, for the advancement of temperance by organizing preventive, educational, evangelistic, social, and legal work.

A frame worn on the neck of an animal, as a cow, a pig, a goose, to prevent passage through a fence.