ETYM Old Eng. wolf, wulf, AS. wulf; akin to OS. wulf, Dutch and German wolf, Icel. ûlfr, Swed. ulf, Dan. ulv, Goth. wulfs, Lith. vilkas, Russ. volk, Latin lupus, Greek lykos. Related to Lupine, Lyceum.
(Irregular plural: wolves).
1. A man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women; SYN. woman chaser, skirt chaser, masher.
2. Any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs.
Any of two species of large wild dogs of the genus Canis. The gray or timber wolf C. lupus, of North America and Eurasia, is highly social, measures up to 90 cm/3 ft at the shoulder, and weighs up to 45 kg/100 lb. It has been greatly reduced in numbers except for isolated wilderness regions. The red wolf C. rufus, generally more slender and smaller (average weight about 15 kg/35 lb) and tawnier in color, may not be a separate species, but a gray wolf–coyote hybrid. It used to be restricted to S central US, but is now thought to be extinct in the wild.
A US federal program to reintroduce the North American gray wolf to Yellowstone Park, Wyoming, and Idaho state was launched 1995. The gray wolf had been largely exterminated from the SW US in the 1930s, and is listed as endangered in every state except Alaska and Minnesota.
Wolves are increasing in parts of Europe, including a thriving population of 3,000 in the Carpathian Mountains, mostly in Romania, and 2,000 in northern Spain.

ETYM Latin lynx, lyncis, Greek lygx; akin to AS. lox, German luchs, prob. named from its sharp sight, and akin to Eng. light. Related to Light, Ounce an animal.
(Homonym: links).
Short-tailed wildcats with usually tufted ears; valued for their fur; SYN. catamount.
Cat Felis lynx found in rocky and forested regions of North America and Europe. About 1 m/3 ft in length, it has a short tail and tufted ears, and the long, silky fur is reddish brown or gray with dark spots. The North American bobcat or bay lynx Felix rufus looks similar but is smaller. Some zoologists place the lynx, the bobcat, and the caracal in a separate genus, Lynx.

Werewolf.

ETYM AS. werwulf; wer a man + wulf a wolf; cf. German wärwolf, währwolf, wehrwolf, a werewolf, Mid. High Germ. werwolf. Related to Were a man, and Wolf, Virile, World.
(Irregular plural: werewolves).
A monster able to change appearance from human to wolf; SYN. wolfman, lycanthrope.
Human being transformed into wolf.
Abortive Nazi resistance organization against the Allied invasion of Germany 1945. It only succeeded in attracting a few diehard Nazi fanatics and, with no broad support, collapsed when the Allies rounded up the remaining Nazi leaders.
In folk belief, a human being either turned by spell into a wolf or having the ability to assume a wolf form. The symptoms of porphyria may have fostered the legends.

The simplest optical instrument, a hand-held converging lens used to produce a magnified, erect and virtual image. The image, being virtual, or an illusion created by the refraction of light rays in the lens, can only be seen by looking through the magnifying glass.

ETYM AS. wenn; akin to Dutch wen, LG. wenne.
(Homonym: when).
A benign cyst formed by excretions from a sebaceous gland.
Enormously congested city.