maw
(archaic) The stomach, especially of an animal.
So Death shall be deceav'd his glut, and with us two / Be forc'd to satisfie his Rav'nous Maw.
The upper digestive tract (where food enters the body), especially the mouth and jaws of a fearsome and ravenous creature; craw.
To save poor lambkins from the eagle's maw
“I saw the opening maw of hell, With endless pains and sorrows there; Which none but they that feel can tell— Oh, I was plunging to despair.
(slang, derogatory) The mouth.
Any large, insatiable or perilous opening.
Adam requires a touch of feminine lace and a whisper of diaphanous silk, not a direct vision of the gaping maw of the human vulva.
Appetite; inclination.
Unless you had more maw to do me good.
The swim bladder of a fish, especially when used as food in Chinese cuisine.
(colloquial) Mother.
A gull.
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