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ly allied to the common dog. The best-known and most destructive species are the European wolf (Canis lupus), the American gray, or timber, wolf (C. occidentalis), and the prairie wolf, or coyote. Wolves often hunt in packs, and may thus attack large animals and even man.

A kind of club moss. See Lycopodium.

Club moss. See Lycopodium.

Any kind of spurge (Euphorbia); -- so called from its acrid milky juice.

An American shrub (Symphoricarpus occidentalis) which bears soft white berries.

Discovered, or first described, by Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1733-1794), the founder of modern embryology. Wolffian body, the mesonephros. -- Wolffian duct, the duct from the Wolffian body.

Originally, a large hound used in hunting wolves; now, any one of certain breeds of large dogs, some of which are nearly identical with the great Danes.

Like a wolf; having the qualities or form of a wolf; as, a wolfish visage; wolfish designs. -- Wolf"ish*ly, adv. -- Wolf"ish*ness, n.

A little or young wolf. Tennyson.

A young wolf. Carlyle.

Same as Wolframite.

Same as Tungsten steel.

A salt of wolframic acid; a tungstate.

Of or pertaining to wolframium. See Tungstic.

high specific gravity. It occurs in cleavable masses, and also crystallized. Called also wolfram.

The technical name of the element tungsten. See Tungsten.

A poisonous plant (Aconitum Lycoctonum), a kind of monkshood; also, by extension, any plant or species of the genus Aconitum. See Aconite.

A carnivorous quadruped (Proteles Lalandii), of South Africa, resembling the fox and hyena. See Proteles.

A half wolf; a mongrel dog, between a dog and a wolf.

The wolf fish.