wolf
/wʊlf/ noun B2- Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.
- Any of several related canines that resemble Canis lupus in appearance, especially those of the genus Canis.
- A man who makes amorous advances to many women.
- A wolf tone or wolf note. · The soft violin solo was marred by persistent wolves.
- Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation. · They toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.· the bee wolf
- One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.
- A white worm which infests granaries, the larva of Nemapogon granella, a tineid moth.
- A wolf spider (Lycosidae spp.).
Plural wolves
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## The Wolf and the Shepherd
A WOLF followed a flock of sheep for a long time and did not attempt to injure one of them.
But when the Wolf, day after day, kept in the company of the sheep and did not make the slightest effort to seize them, the Shepherd began to look upon him as a guardian of his flock rather than as a plotter of evil against it; and when occasion called him one day into the city, he left the sheep entirely in his charge.
The Wolf, now that he had the opportunity, fell upon the sheep, and destroyed the greater part of the flock.
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