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r surface of; as, to flay an ox; to flay the green earth. With her nails She 'll flay thy wolfish visage. Shak.

To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley.

A sword; -- so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox. [Obs.] Thou diest on point of fox. Shak.

A writer of fragments; as, the fragmentist of Wolfenbüttel. [R.]

Refuse; rubbish. [Obs.] Wolcott.

gans. Genital cord (Anat.), a cord developed in the fetus by the union of portions of the Wolffian and Müllerian ducts and giving rise to parts of the urogenital passages in both sexes.

large badger. It was formerly believed to be inordinately voracious, whence the name; the wolverene. It is a native of the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia. Glutton bird (Zoöl.), the giant fulmar (Ossifraga gigantea); -- called also Mother Carey's goose, and mollymawk.

To growl; to snarl. And wolves are gnarling who shall gnaw thee first. Shak.

ys reflected from two surfaces successively shall have the same direction; -- called also Wollaston's goniometer, from the inventor.

Swollen, as if from gout. Derham.

Grandeur. Wollaston.

ed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse. The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead. Pope.

The quality of being greedy; vehement and selfish desire. Fox in stealth, wolf in greediness. Shak.

Worked up, or swollen, to a high degree; as, a highwrought passion. "A high-wrought flood." Shak.

To utter a loud, protraced, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do. And dogs in corners set them down to howl. Drayton. Methought a legion of foul fiends Environ'd me about, and howled in my ears. Shak.

Swollen; gibbous. [Obs.]

Hunting spider (Zoöl.), a spider which hunts its prey, instead of catching it in a web; a wolf spider. -- Hunting watch. See Hunter, 6.

The quality of being incogitative; want of thought or of the power of thinking. Wollaston.

Multipied an infinite number of times. [R.] Wollaston.

Not oppressive or burdensome. O. Wolcott.