rare. Also 5 woluesse, -as. [f. WOLF sb. + -ESS1.] A she-wolf.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), III. 43. A wolfesse [v.rr. wolvesse, woluas] þat hadde i-lost hir whelpes.
1550. W. Lynne, Carion’s Cron., 25 b. By chaunce came a wolfesse out of the nexte mountaynes, which gaue them [Romulus and Remus] soucke.
1820. W. Tooke, trans. Lucian, I. 560, note. The wolf lives instinctively solitary … so that even his connection with the wolfess is but of short duration.
