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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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	Maw \Maw\, n.
   An old game at cards. --Sir A. Weldon.
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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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	Maw \Maw\ (m[add]), n. [See Mew a gull.] (Zool.)
   A gull.
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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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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Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
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	maw
     n : informal terms for the mouth [syn: trap, cakehole, hole,
          yap, gob]

Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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	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