 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
werewolf
noun: a monster able to change appearance from human to wolf [syn:
{wolfman}, {lycanthrope}]
[also: {werewolves} (pl)]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Werewolf \Were"wolf'\, noun; pl. {Werewolves}. [AS. werwulf; wer a
man + wulf a wolf; cf. G. w["a]rwolf, w["a]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.
The werwolf went about his prey. --William of
Palerne.
The brutes that wear our form and face,
The werewolves of the human race. --Longfellow.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
WEREWOLF, noun A wolf that was once, or is sometimes, a man. All
werewolves are of evil disposition, having assumed a bestial form to
gratify a beastial appetite, but some, transformed by sorcery, are as
humane and is consistent with an acquired taste for human flesh.
Some Bavarian peasants having caught a wolf one evening, tied it
to a post by the tail and went to bed. The next morning nothing was
there! Greatly perplexed, they consulted the local priest, who told
them that their captive was undoubtedly a werewolf and had resumed its
human for during the night. "The next time that you take a wolf," the
good man said, "see that you chain it by the leg, and in the morning
you will find a Lutheran."
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