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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Maw \Maw\ (m[add]), noun [See {Mew} a gull.] (Zo["o]l.) A gull.

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Maw \Maw\, noun [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.

Bellies and maws of living creatures. --Bacon.

2. Appetite; inclination. [Obs.]

Unless you had more maw to do me good. --Beau. & Fl.

{Fish maw}. (Zo["o]l.) See under {Fish}.

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Maw \Maw\, noun An old game at cards. --Sir A. Weldon.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

maw

noun

1: 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]:

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