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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MAW, n.
1. The stomach of brutes; applied to the stomach of human beings in contempt only.
2. The craw of fowls.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English maga; akin to Old High German mago stomach, Lithuanian makas purse Date: before 12th century 1. the receptacle into which food is taken by swallowing: a. stomach b. crop 2. a. the throat, gullet, or jaws especially of a voracious animal b. something suggestive of a gaping maw

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a the stomach of an animal. b the jaws or throat of a voracious animal. 2 colloq. the stomach of a greedy person. Etymology: OE maga f. Gmc

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Maw Maw (m[add]), n. [See Mew a gull.] (Zo["o]l.) A gull.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(maws) If you describe something as a maw, you mean that it is like a big open mouth which swallows everything near it. (LITERARY) ...helping to chop wood to feed the red maw of the stove. N-COUNT: usu sing, usu with supp

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

mo (qebhah (compare qobhah, Nu 25:8), keres; Septuagint enustron): The first word means the maw or stomach of ruminants. It is derived from a root designating "hollowed out." It is mentioned alongside of the shoulder and the two cheeks of ox and sheep, which are the priest's share of any sacrifice brought by Israelites (De 18:3). Septuagint, where enustron corresponds to Attic enustron, denotes the fourth stomach or abomasum, which was considered as a delicacy, and was almost a national dish of the Athenians, just as tripe is of the Londoners. The parallel form qobhah is used for the body of a woman, which is being transfixed by a spear thrust in Nu 25:8. The last word keres is found in a metaphorical sense: "(Nebuchadrezzar) hath, like a monster, swallowed me up, he hath filled his maw with my delicacies" (Jer 51:34).

H. L. E. Luering

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Stomach (of animals). 2. Craw, crop, first stomach (of a bird).

Airports

Landing Facility Type	AIRPORT
Airport Code	MAW
EFF_DATE	02/16/2006
FAA Region	ACE
FAA District	NONE
State	MO
State	MISSOURI
County	DUNKLIN
County State	MO
City Name	MALDEN
Full Name	MALDEN MUNI
Owner Type	PU
Facility Use	PU
Facility City, State, Zip	"MALDEN, MO 63863"
Elevation	295
Aeronautical chart on which the airport facility appears	ST LOUIS
Distance from the central business district of the associated city to the airport in nautical miles	03
Direction of airport from the central business district of the associated city	N
NASP/Federal Agreement Code	NGPY
Customs international airport	N
Customs Landing Rights Airport	N
Joint Use	N
Military Landing Rights	Y
MIL_INT	R
Control Tower	N
Based Single Engine General Aviation Aircraft	005
Based Multi-engine general aviation aircraft	001
Air Taxi	000300
General Aviation, Local Operations	001300
General Aviation - Itinerant Operations	005200
Military Aircraft Operations	000200
Latitude	36.6005569444
Longitude	-89.9922027778
State FIPS code	29
State Postal Code	MO
Total domestic enplanements (inbound plus outbound)	1
Version	09

Moby Thesaurus

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