v. [f. inflexional stem of WOLF sb.]
1. intr. (also with it). To behave like a wolf, play the wolf.
1702. C. Mather, Magn. Chr., III. III. 187/2. If any Seducers were let loose to wolve it among the good people of Roxbury.
a. 1909. E. Thompson Seton, Billy, i. (C. D. Suppl.). A wolver was ‘wolving’ on the east side of Sentinel Mountain.
2. Of an organ: To give forth a hollow wailing sound like the howl of a wolf, from deficient wind-supply.
1864. Le Fanu, Uncle Silas, I. xxv. 325. What an awful storm!… Don’t you like the sound? What they used to call ‘wolving’ in the old organ at Dorminster!
1919. M. R. James, Thin Ghost, 130. The organ wolved—you know what I mean: the wind died.
