Wiktionary
n. (context lang=en fiction mythological) A creature of Southeast Asian myth; a shapeshifter who can assume the shape of a tiger.
Wikipedia
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the weretiger is a type of lycanthrope.
Usage examples of "weretiger".
He realized that meant the weretiger was rising within him, was climbing out along a trail of that sweetest of scents.
The weretiger caught that scent so clearly and leaped for it, rushing through the man, trying to steal his humanity and bring forth the deeper and darker instincts.
He was fighting it, automatically after all these years of battling the urges, but if he embraced the weretiger, just for a moment, then the transformation would be complete and the battle won.
There lay the tall man, his throat torn out by the weretiger, and next to him was the bearlike man, shredded upon the ground, a mass of skin flaps waving in the breeze.
He could sit here and hold the weretiger in check as long as he could keep the foolish huntsmen back from his immediate space and from pressing any questions that became too uncomfortable.
Leaning on it for support, he managed to turn, then took many, many deep breaths, fighting the weretiger with every one, forcing himself into a mental place of calm.
Could any man who had not seen the weretiger, or felt the beast within him, truly understand the level of primal rage and power?
The drink and the threat were too much for him, too demanding of the weretiger for him to suppress it.
He had thought the weretiger beaten this time, suppressed and under his complete control.
He was becoming the weretiger and could not stop it, and Sadye would die as all the others had died.
He did not deny the weretiger now, nor did Sadye utilize her soothing, magical music to keep the beast within, for that was beyond her talents.
And she had turned the weretiger away, had sent the beast off to join in the hunt for the deer.
Despite her surprise, which she had later admitted, that the weretiger had emerged so quickly and unexpectedly, Sadye had fended him off.
Rather, Sadye helped him channel the energy of the weretiger, keeping it at bay with soothing words and melodies during any times of tension in the town and luring it out into the forest when it came forth at night, sending the beast out in a productive manner, hunting deer.
Perhaps she could not put the weretiger away, but, it seemed, she could bring it forth!