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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…

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

The anterior segment of the brain, including the cerebrum and olfactory lobes; the forebrain.

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.

utting green shall mean the ground within twenty yards of the hole, excepting hazards." Golf Rules.

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

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

Og or pertaining to the nose or olfactory organs.

The division of the brain in front of the prosencephalon, consisting of the two olfactory lobes from which the olfactory nerves arise.

y are usually retractile, and often transversely furrowed or plicate, and are regarded as olfactory organs. Called also dorsal tentacles. See Illust. under Pygobranchia, and Opisthobranchia.

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

To perceive by the olfactory organs; to smell; as, to scent game, as a hound does. Methinks I scent the morning air. Shak.

(Golf) To scrape the ground with the sole of the club, before striking the ball, in making a stroke.

The wolf fish.

ct (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 orga…

To perceive by the olfactory nerves, or organs of smell; to have a sensation of, excited through the nasal organs when affected by the appropriate materials or qualities; to obtain the scent of; as, to smell a rose; to smell perfumes.

, do or ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, do, or the same in reverse order. Yet can I neither solfe ne sing. Piers Plowman.