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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Werewolf

/wĕr'-wo͝olfˌ/ · Were·wolf · IPA /ˈwɛəɹwʊlf/
01 n. A person transformed into a wolf in form and appetite, either temporarily or permanently, whether by supernatural influences, by witchcraft…
pl. Werewolves ((#))
  1. 1.
    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.
    “The werwolf went about his prey.” — William of Palerne.
    “The brutes that wear our form and face, The werewolves of the human race.” Longfellow.