"mer-wolf" meaning in All languages combined

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mer-wolves",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "mer-wolves"
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      "expansion": "mer-wolf (plural mer-wolves)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "word": "merwolf"
        }
      ],
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1905, The Mount Holyoke, page 44:",
          "text": "Wild wind that beareth the spin-drift afar, / Wild chant that telleth the doom of Asgar, / Shriek ye, and wail ye, while shudd’ring doth sweep / Serpent, his sea-horse, adown the great deep, / Battling and mad like an eagle gone blind, / Seeking the war-fleets, long sunken, to find , / Down to the arms of Queen Ran of the sea, / Down to the sea-floor, where mer-wolves go free.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1918, Dorothy L. Sayers, Catholic Tales and Christian Songs, published 2008, page 57:",
          "text": "Well for the terrible mer-wolf, and the caves where the witch-wife lay / Till we touched her brows where the fir-trees stand and all we witless wanderers wonne!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1921, Charles Scott Moncrieff, Widsith, Beowulf, Finnsburgh, Waldere, Deor: Done into Common English after the Old Manner, pages 53–54:",
          "text": "Bare then the mer-wolf, / when to the bottom she came, / The ringed Prince / to her own place, / So that he might not, / for all his proud mind, / Wield his weapons; / for such wondrous things / Swinked him in the sound, / sea-deer many / With worrying tusks / his war-sark tare, / Chased him the creatures.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Patricia A. McKillip, Something Rich and Strange, published 2015, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Above them, more beasts frolicked in the sea: mer-unicorns, mer-dragons, mer-wolves, mer-elephants, even, Megan saw with astonishment, a mer-sphinx.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "Alternative form of merwolf"
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          "merwolf#English"
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  ],
  "word": "mer-wolf"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mer-wolves",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
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      "expansion": "mer-wolf (plural mer-wolves)",
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "word": "merwolf"
        }
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        "English nouns with irregular plurals",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1905, The Mount Holyoke, page 44:",
          "text": "Wild wind that beareth the spin-drift afar, / Wild chant that telleth the doom of Asgar, / Shriek ye, and wail ye, while shudd’ring doth sweep / Serpent, his sea-horse, adown the great deep, / Battling and mad like an eagle gone blind, / Seeking the war-fleets, long sunken, to find , / Down to the arms of Queen Ran of the sea, / Down to the sea-floor, where mer-wolves go free.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1918, Dorothy L. Sayers, Catholic Tales and Christian Songs, published 2008, page 57:",
          "text": "Well for the terrible mer-wolf, and the caves where the witch-wife lay / Till we touched her brows where the fir-trees stand and all we witless wanderers wonne!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1921, Charles Scott Moncrieff, Widsith, Beowulf, Finnsburgh, Waldere, Deor: Done into Common English after the Old Manner, pages 53–54:",
          "text": "Bare then the mer-wolf, / when to the bottom she came, / The ringed Prince / to her own place, / So that he might not, / for all his proud mind, / Wield his weapons; / for such wondrous things / Swinked him in the sound, / sea-deer many / With worrying tusks / his war-sark tare, / Chased him the creatures.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Patricia A. McKillip, Something Rich and Strange, published 2015, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Above them, more beasts frolicked in the sea: mer-unicorns, mer-dragons, mer-wolves, mer-elephants, even, Megan saw with astonishment, a mer-sphinx.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of merwolf"
      ],
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          "merwolf#English"
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  "word": "mer-wolf"
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