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Of or pertaining to the mesonephros; as, the mesonephric, or Wolffian, duct.

iddle one of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in most vertebrates; the Wolffian body.

e, its short sound, as in nod, and the sounds heard in the words orb, son, do (feod), and wolf (book). In connection with the other vowels it forms several digraphs and diphthongs. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 107-129.

or wild species from which a domesticated or cultivated variety has been derived; as, the wolf is thought by some to be the original of the dog, the blackthorn the original of the plum.

s in man and some other animals, and supposed to be a remnant of the anterior part of the Wolffian body.

r the corresponding part of the excretory duct of the testicle, which is derived from the Wolffian body.

A group of tubules, a remnant of the Wolffian body, often found near the ovary or oviduct; the epoöphoron.

To direct toward an abject; to aim; as, to point a gun at a wolf, or a cannon at a fort.

Having internal cheek pouches; as, the pouched squirrels. Pouched dog. (Zoöl.) See Zebra wolf, under Zebra. -- Pouched frog (Zoöl.), the nototrema, the female of which has a dorsal pouch in which the eggs are hatched, and in which the young pass through their brief tadpole stage. -- Pouched gopher, or Pouched rat. (Z…

oat and spots along the sides, black; three outer tail feathers partly white. -- Prairie wolf. (Zoöl.) See Coyote.

allied to the hyenas, but smaller and having weaker jaws and teeth. It includes the aard-wolf.

Accustomed to prowl, or engaged in roving stealthily, as for prey. "A prowling wolf." Milton. -- Prowl"ing*ly, adv.

be greedy; to show rapacity. [Written also ravin, and ravine.] Benjamin shall raven as a wolf. Gen. xlix. 27.

ouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture.

To make savage. [R.] Its bloodhounds, savaged by a cross of wolf. South

The wolf fish.

uct (Anat.), the primitive duct of the embryonic excretory organs which gives rise to the Wolffian duct and ureter; the pronephric duct. -- Segmental organs. (a) (Anat.) The embryonic excretory organs of vertebrates, consisting primarily of the segmental tubes and segmental ducts. (b) (Zoöl.) The tubular excretory org…

A large and powerful hound formerly used in hunting the stag, the wolf, and other large animals. The breed is nearly extinct.

To wander at large; to roam idly about; to ramble. The wolf spied out a straggling kid. L'Estrange.

ore. -- Strand plover (Zoöl.), a black-bellied plover. See Illust. of Plover. -- Strand wolf (Zoöl.), the brown hyena.