(obsolete or historical) A man; a male; a husband / (obsolete or historical) A fine for slaying a man; wergeld.

Eye dialect spelling of were.

Initialism of word error rate.

plural of wer

second-person singular simple past indicative of be / first/second/third-person plural simple past indicative of be / first/second/third-person singular/plural simple present/past subjunctive of be

Alternative form of wer (“man; wergeld”)

(fandom slang) The collective name for any kind of person that changes into another form under certain conditions, including the werewolf.

lycanthrope, used with animal names to indicate a person who changes shape into that animal.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see as, it, were. / Used to indicate that a word or statement is perhaps not exact though practically right; as if it were so.

(mythology) A person who transforms into a fox or foxlike form.