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n. The mouth, stomach, jaws, or gullet of a voracious animal, especially a carnivore.

n. The opening into something felt to be insatiable: "I saw the opening maw of hell” ( Herman Melville).

n. Mother.

n. the stomach, especially of an animal

n. the upper digestive tract (where food enters the body), especially the mouth and jaws of a ravenous creature.

n. any great, insatiable or perilous opening.

n. A gull.

n. 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.

n. Appetite; inclination.

n. An old game at cards.

n. The stomach: now used of human beings only in contempt, and rarely of animals.

n. The crop or craw of a fowl.

n. The sound or air-bladder of a fish.

n. Stomach; appetite; inclination.

A dialectal (Scotch) form of mow.

n. A dialectal (Scotch) form of mew.

n. An old game at cards, played with a piquet pack of thirty-six cards by any number of persons from two to six.

n. informal terms for the mouth

"His maw was the only one heard him walk the floor nights, and after he found, out she could hear him he walked in his socks."

rima oris    mouth    oral cavity    oral fissure   

gull    stomach    appetite    inclination    throat   

Baugh    Gaw    Haw    Law    Shaw    Straw    Waugh    aw    awe    bashaw   

fang    snout    talon    jaw    lair    claw    carcass    gulf    belly    cavern