a white color phase of the common wolf, Canis lupus.
- 1821  (1823)  We saw . . . a number of deer, and, occasionally, a solitary white wolf. . . .
- 1853  It was also of a snow-white colour, with long hair, bushy tail, and short erect ears, but its aspect was not to be mistaken. It was the great white wolf.
- 1855  (1956)  The white wolf skin in season is esteemed an article of royalty; it is one of the chief honours of the chieftainship and much used by these people in their religious ceremonies, and the kind of wolves are not numerous.
- 1892  "Wal, I follered that buffier like a white wolf. I wur determined to hev that baler, boys, and so I glued myself to his tail, an tore arter him. . . ."