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English
Pronunciation
Noun
wolves
- plural of wolf
- (obsolete) genitive of wolf
1679, Elisha Coles, A Dictionary, English-Latin, and Latin-English; , 2nd edition, London: John Richardson, for George Sawbridg, T. Basset, John Wright, Richard Chiswell:Lŭpātus, a, um, Bridled with a ſharp bit, Sharp like a Wolves teeth.
1692, Roger L’Estrange, “[The Fables of Æsop, &c.] Fab[le] CLV. A Shepherd and a Wolves Whelp.”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: , London: R Sare, , →OCLC, page 139:Fab[le]. CLV. A Shepherd and a Wolves Whelp. A Shepherd took a Sucking Whelp of a Wolfe, and Train’d it up with his Dogs.
1711, [Laurent] B[ordelon], translated by , A History of the Ridiculous Extravagancies of Monsieur Oufle; , London: J. Morphew, , page 44:[…] for he remembred to have read, that if one of theſe Flowers gather’d in Auguſt, when the Sun is in Leo, and if after wrapp’d up in a Lawrel Leaf, with a Wolves Tooth, this little Pacquet be laid in a Church; […]
Verb
wolves
- third-person singular simple present indicative of wolve
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “wolves”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- ^ Kristin Denham and Anne Lobeck, in Linguistics for Everyone: An Introduction (2009), page 136
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