( a. )
Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.
( a. )
Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary. Пересмотренный полный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012