[ad. L. lupīn-us, f. lupus wolf.] Having the nature or qualities of a wolf.
1660. Gauden, Serm. at Funeral of Brownrig, 236. That which in their Physiognomy is … lupine or leoline (for so we read some men had lionly looks).
1851. Kingsley, Yeast, xiv. To send back the fugitive lamb into the jaws of the well-meaning, but still lupine wolf.
1883. Emma Phipson, Anim. Lore Shaks. Time, 36. Ravages imagined to be committed by them [men and women] in their lupine shape.
1885. Harper’s Mag., March, 648/1. The lupine foster-mother of Romulus and Remus.
