wehrwolf

English

Noun

wehrwolf (plural wehrwolves)

1. Archaic form of werewolf.
   • 1896, Good Words and Sunday Magazine (volume 37, page 262)

     Nice, imagining that Jean had heard—who knows? perhaps seen, the ghouls and wehrwolves who were calling him from without, clasped her horny hands round the neck of her young master […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “wehrwolf”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• wher-wolf