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The wolf fish.
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A rare element of the chromium group found in certain minerals, as wolfram and scheelite, and isolated as a heavy steel-gray metal which is very hard and infusible. It has both acid and basic properties. When alloyed in small quantities with steel, it greatly increases its hardness. Symbol W (Wolframium). Atomic weight, 183.6. Specific gravity, 18.
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A young wolf.
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Discovered, or first described, by Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1733-1794), the founder of modern embryology.
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The oxide of tungsten, a yellow mineral occurring in a pulverulent form. It is often associated with wolfram.
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Like a wolf; having the qualities or form of a wolf; as, a wolfish visage; wolfish designs.
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A salt of wolframic acid; a tungstate.
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Wolfish.
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The zebra wolf. See under Wolf.
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Of or pertaining to tungsten; derived from, or resembling, tungsten; wolframic; as, tungstic oxide.
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Any one of several species of wild and savage carnivores belonging to the genus Canis and closely 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.
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Tungstate of iron and manganese, generally of a brownish or grayish black color, submetallic luster, and high specific gravity. It occurs in cleavable masses, and also crystallized. Called also wolfram.
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Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.
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A little or young wolf.
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Of or pertaining to wolframium. See Tungstic.
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A howling, as of a dog or wolf; a wailing.
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Same as Wolframite.
v. i.
To howl, as a dog or a wolf; to wail; as, ululating jackals.
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One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths; as, the bee wolf.
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A salt of tungstic acid; a wolframate.
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