wolf

1. (countable) Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.Examples: "He would listen quietly at meetings of the Politburo, or to distinguished visitors, puffing at his Dunhill pipe, doodling aimlessly - his secretaries Poskrebyshev and Dvinsky write that his pads were sometimes covered with the phrase ‘Lenin-teacher-friend’, but the last foreigner to visit him, in February 1953, noted that he was doodling wolves."Synonyms: grey wolfcountable

2. (countable) Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.Synonyms: grey wolfcountable

3. (music) A wolf tone or wolf note.Examples: "The soft violin solo was marred by persistent wolves."

4. (figurative) Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.Examples: "They toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door."; "the bee wolf"; "“[…] Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. Oh, dear, there's so much to tell you, so many warnings to give you, but all that must be postponed for the moment.”"figuratively

5. (obsolete) An eating ulcer or sore. See lupus.Examples: "If God should send a cancer upon thy face, or a wolf into thy side"obsolete