Maw

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Maw \Maw\, n.
     An old game at cards. --Sir A. Weldon.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Maw \Maw\ (m[add]), n. [See {Mew} a gull.] (Zool.)
     A gull.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  MAW
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