And she called her name Wenonah.
Longfellow, Hiawatha, iii. (1855).
Wentworth (Eva), the beau-ideal of female purity. She was educated in strict seclusion. De Courcy fell in love with her, but deceived her; whereupon she died calmly and tranquilly, elevated by religious hope. (See Zaira).--Rev. C. R. Maturin, Women (a romance, 1822).
Werburg (St.), born a princess. By her prayer, she drove the wild geese from Weedon.
She falleth in her way with Weedon, where, ’tis said,
St. Werburg, princely born--a most religious maid--
From those peculiar fields, by prayer the wild geese drove.
Drayton, Polyolbion, xxiii. (1622).
Were-wolf (2 syl.), a man-wolf, a man transformed into a wolf temporarily or otherwise.
Oft through the forest dark,