werewolf
    n 1: a monster able to change appearance from human to wolf and
         back again [syn: werewolf, wolfman, lycanthrope,
         loup-garou]

Werewolf \Were"wolf`\, n.; pl. Werewolves. [AS. werwulf; wer a
   man + wulf a wolf; cf. G. w[aum]rwolf, w[aum]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.
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         The werwolf went about his prey.         --William of
                                                  Palerne.
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         The brutes that wear our form and face,
         The werewolves of the human race.        --Longfellow.
   [1913 Webster] Werk

WEREWOLF, n.  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."