mawseed (mased)

The seeds of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum: so called from being used as food for cage-birds, especially when molting. mawskin (mask in), n. The stomach of a calf prepared for making cheese; rennet. [Prov. Eng.] maw-worm (mâ'wėrm), n. An intestinal worm which may be found in the stomach, as a pinworm or threadworm, such as Oxyuris vermicu laris. Milton, To the Lord General Cromwell. max (maks), n. [Said to be an abbr. of * maxime, 2. The crop or craw of a fowl. Granivorous birds have the mechanism of a mill; their maw is the hopper which holds and softens the grain, letting it down by degrees into the stomach. Arbuthnot. 3. The sound or air-bladder of a fish. Isingla or fish glue, in its raw state, is the "sound," maw , or swimming bladder of various kinds of fish. Workshop Receipts , 2d ser., p. 355. 41. Stomach; appetite; inclination. Unle you had more maw to do me good. Beau . and Fl. maw2 (ma), v . A dialectal (Scotch) form of mowl. On the fifteenth day of May The meadows will not maw. Proud Lady Margaret (Child's Ballads, VIII. 86). maw3 (ma), n. A dialectal (Scotch) form of mew1.