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A wolf (Canis pallipes), found in India, allied to the jackal.

A tract of ground laid out for the game of golf; a golfing green.

forth at one time, by a sow or other multiparous animal, taken collectively. Also Fig. A wolf came to a sow, and very kindly offered to take care of her litter. D. Estrange. Reflect upon numerous litter of strange, senseless opinions that crawl about the world. South.

A werewolf; a lycanthrope.

The Pawnees, a tribe of North American Indians whose principal totem was the wolf.

Wolfish; ravenous. Gauden.

The Wolf, a constellation situated south of Scorpio.

A human being fabled to have been changed into a wolf; a werewolf.

The supposed act of turning one's self or another person into a wolf. Lowell.

to indicate; -- used literally and figuratively; as, this monument marks the spot where Wolfe died; his courage and energy marked him for a leader.

A golf club like the iron, but with a shorter head, slightly more lofted, used chiefly for short approaches.

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

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

A kind of golf stick used to lift the ball out of holes, ruts, etc.

prominent part of the face or anterior extremity of the head containing the nostrils and olfactory cavities; the olfactory organ. See Nostril, and Olfactory organ under Olfactory.

, 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.

r 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.

The olfactory organ of some Mollusca. It is connected with the organ of respiration.

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

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