werewolf

3 definitions found

werewolf - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Werewolf \Were"wolf`\, n.; pl. Werewolves. [AS. werwulf; wer a
     man + wulf a wolf; cf. G. w[aum]rwolf, w[aum]hrwolf,
     wehrwolf, a werewolf, MHG. werwolf. [root]285. See Were a
     man, and Wolf, and cf. Virile, World.]
     A person transformed into a wolf in form and appetite, either
     temporarily or permanently, whether by supernatural
     influences, by witchcraft, or voluntarily; a lycanthrope.
     Belief in werewolves, formerly general, is not now extinct.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           The werwolf went about his prey.         --William of
                                                    Palerne.
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           The brutes that wear our form and face,
           The werewolves of the human race.        --Longfellow.
     [1913 Webster] Werk

werewolf - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  werewolf
      n 1: a monster able to change appearance from human to wolf and
           back again [syn: werewolf, wolfman, lycanthrope,
           loup-garou]

werewolf - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  46 Moby Thesaurus words for "werewolf":
     Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolf-man, ape-man, bogey, bogeyman, bugaboo,
     bugbear, demon, devil, devil incarnate, fee-faw-fum, fiend,
     fiend from hell, frightener, ghost, ghoul, harpy, hellhound,
     hellkite, hobgoblin, holy terror, horror, incubus, jaguar-man,
     lamia, monster, nightmare, ogre, ogress, phantom, revenant,
     scarebabe, scarecrow, scarer, specter, succubus, terror, vampire,
     werecat, werecrocodile, werefox, werehyena, werejaguar, werelion,
     weretiger