I. ˈmȯ noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle English mawe, from Old English maga; akin to Old High German mago stomach, Old Norse magi stomach, Welsh megin bellows, Lithuanian makas purse
1. : the receptacle into which food is taken by swallowing:
a. : stomach
b. : crop
2.
a. : the hypothetical seat or symbol of voracious appetite
b. obsolete : appetite , inclination
3.
a. : the throat, gullet, or jaws especially of a voracious carnivore
b. : an opening that gapes like ravenous jaws
II. noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle English (Scots), from Old Norse mār — more at mew
chiefly Scotland : sea gull
III.
chiefly dialect Britain
variant of mow
IV. noun
( -s )
Etymology: origin unknown
: an early form of spoil five
V.
chiefly South & Midland
variant of ma
VI. ˈmȯ noun
or maw seed
( -s )
Etymology: maw short for maw seed, part modification, part translation of obsolete German magsame poppy seed, from Middle High German magesāme, from mage poppy (from Old High German mago ) + sāme seed; akin to Old Saxon mago-, māho poppy, Old Swedish val mughi, Greek mēkōn, Russian mak
: poppy seed ; especially : that of the opium poppy which is commonly used as food for cage birds