maw

6 definitions found

maw - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Maw \Maw\, n.
     An old game at cards. --Sir A. Weldon.
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  Maw \Maw\ (m[add]), n. [See Mew a gull.] (Zool.)
     A gull.
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  Maw \Maw\, n. [OE. mawe, AS. maga stomach; akin to D. maag, OHG.
     mago, G. magen, Icel. magi, Sw. mage, Dan. mave. [root]103.]
     1. A stomach; the receptacle into which food is taken by
        swallowing; in birds, the craw; -- now used only of the
        lower animals, exept humorously or in contempt. --Chaucer.
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              Bellies and maws of living creatures. --Bacon.
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     2. Appetite; inclination. [Obs.]
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              Unless you had more maw to do me good. --Beau. & Fl.
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     Fish maw. (Zool.) See under Fish.
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maw - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  maw
      n 1: informal terms for the mouth [syn: trap, cakehole,
           hole, maw, yap, gob]

maw - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :

  MAW
         Microsoft At Work
         

maw - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  58 Moby Thesaurus words for "maw":
     abdomen, abomasum, bay window, bazoo, beerbelly, belly,
     breadbasket, chaps, chops, craw, crop, diaphragm, embonpoint,
     embouchure, first stomach, gab, gizzard, gob, gullet, gut,
     honeycomb stomach, jaw, jaws, jowls, kishkes, kisser, lips,
     mandibles, manyplies, maxilla, midriff, mouth, mug, mush, muzzle,
     omasum, oral cavity, paunch, pot, potbelly, potgut, premaxilla,
     psalterium, pusgut, rennet bag, reticulum, rumen, second stomach,
     spare tire, stomach, swagbelly, third stomach, trap, tum-tum,
     tummy, underbelly, ventripotence, yap