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now used only of the lower animals, exept humorously or in contempt. Chaucer. Bellies and maws of living creatures. Bacon.

A slattern; a mawks. [Prov. Eng.]

See Malkin, and Maukin.

Slatternly. [Obs.]

Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; disgusting. So sweetly mawkish', and so smoothly dull. Pope.

In a mawkish way.

The quality or state of being mawkish. J. H. Newman.

A slattern; a mawk. [Prov. Eng.]

Maggoty. [Prov. Eng.]

A puppet; a doll; originally, an idol, because in the Middle Ages it was generally believed that the Mohammedans worshiped images representing Mohammed. [Obs.] Wyclif. Beau. & Fl.

The religion of Mohammed; also, idolatry. See Mawmet. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Nauseous. [Obs.] L' Estrange.

The seed of the opium poppy.

Any intestinal worm found in the stomach, esp. the common round worm (Ascaris lumbricoides), and allied species.

To eject from the maw; to disgorge. [R.] Shelton.

See Mollemoke.

The sea mew.

e way a band select from forage drives A herd of beeves, fair oxen and fair kine. Milton. Mawhood completed his forage unmolested. Marshall.

l.), the giant fulmar (Ossifraga gigantea); -- called also Mother Carey's goose, and mollymawk.

Mawkishly or weakly good; exhibiting goodness with silliness. [Colloq.]