Noun

(en noun)

A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.

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(archaic) A vehicle operated mechanically; an automobile.

(telephony, abbreviation) An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.

(computing) A computer.

(figuratively) A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional.

Especially, the group that controls a political or similar organization; a combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use.

* Landor

The whole machine of government ought not to bear upon the people with a weight so heavy and oppressive.

Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.

(Addison)

(euphemistic, obsolete) Penis.

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Noun

(wolves)

A large wild canid of certain subspecies of Canis lupus .

A man who makes amorous advances on many women.

(music) A wolf tone or wolf note; an unpleasant tone produced when a note matches the natural resonating frequency of the body of a musical instrument, the quality of which may be likened to the howl of a wolf.

One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.

(figurative) Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.

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A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.

(obsolete) An eating ulcer or sore. See lupus.

* Jeremy Taylor

If God should send a cancer upon thy face, or a wolf into thy side.

A willying machine.

(Knight)

(Webster 1913)