Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In old superstition, a human being turned into a wolf while retaining human intelligence.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of werewolf.

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Examples

  • Although Ruth Fielding had reason to believe that the police authorities trusted the Countess Marchand and were sure of her loyalty, many of the peasants about the chateau believed that the werwolf was the unfortunate countess herself in diabolical form.

    Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier Alice B. Emerson

  • From this it is obvious, then, that the werwolf is a hybrid of the material and immaterial -- of man and Elemental, known and Unknown.

    Werwolves Elliott O'Donnell 1918

  • At the rate the girl had seen the "werwolf" flying over the fields, he must have covered that distance faster than an automobile.

    Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier Alice B. Emerson

  • Slavonic name of the werwolf, which is called in Bohemian _vlkodlak_, in Bulgarian and Slovak, _vrkolak_, &c., "the vampire and the werwolf having many points in common.

    Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore William Ralston Shedden Ralston 1858

  • "But, listen; no mather how ignorant, nor how much he don't know, a good man's a man -- an 'to pr-rove ut he jumps wid his axe roight into th' middle av th 'werwolf's own an' kills noine, countin 'th' three cripples Oi finished.

    The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest 1921

  • I don't want to know every minutia of your daily routine, down to the seven minutes you spend filing your toenails into perfect points in a desire to resemble a werwolf.

    Meredith Fineman: "About Me" 101. 2010

  • I don't want to know every minutia of your daily routine, down to the seven minutes you spend filing your toenails into perfect points in a desire to resemble a werwolf.

    Meredith Fineman: "About Me" 101 2010

  • Our protagonist is a gay man with AIDS, taking medicine for it that causes side effects, faced with the daily challenges of maintaining this lifestyle ...as well as those that come with being a werwolf.

    June 26th, 2008 douglascohen 2008

  • Another one, Corn Wolf, a novel about a werwolf in Amish country, will be published next year.

    Tristran Egolf Dead : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2005

  • That the peasants of the surrounding territory should believe in that old and wicked legend of the werwolf was not to be considered strange.

    Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier Alice B. Emerson

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