Rhymes for WAWS

• an infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating lesions

• a game in which players try to pick each jackstraw (or spillikin) off of a pile without moving any of the others

• something considered choice to eat

• the sound made by corvine birds

• utter a cry, characteristic of crows, rooks, or ravens

• a wad of something chewable as tobacco

• chew without swallowing

• sharp curved horny process on the toe of a bird or some mammals or reptiles

• a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something

• a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods

• a bird's foot

• move as if by clawing, seizing, or digging

• clutch as if in panic

• scratch, scrape, pull, or dig with claws or nails

• attack as if with claws

• a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food

• common black-and-grey Eurasian bird noted for thievery

• bite or chew on with the teeth

• become ground down or deteriorate

• a spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus

• the nictitating membrane of a horse

• utter `haw'

• informal terms for the mouth

• To express disgust or contempt.

• a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people

• hand tool having a toothed blade for cutting

• a power tool for cutting wood

• cut with a saw

• United States clarinetist and leader of a swing band (1910-2004)

• United States humorist who wrote about rural life (1818-1885)

• United States physician and suffragist (1847-1919)

• British playwright (born in Ireland); founder of the Fabian Society (1856-1950)

• basically shredded cabbage

• plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder

• material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds

• a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white

• a thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the mouth

• of a pale yellow color like straw; straw-colored

• cover or provide with or as if with straw

• spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic)

• the 23rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet

• a large marble used for shooting in the game of marbles

• the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid

• warm weather following a freeze; snow and ice melt

• a relaxation or slackening of tensions or reserve; becoming less hostile

• become or cause to become soft or liquid

• a handsaw that is stiffened by metal reinforcement along the upper edge

• an endless saw consisting of a toothed metal band that is driven around two wheels

• any of several plants of the genus Galium

• a saw that is set in a frame in the shape of an H; used with both hands to cut wood that is held in a sawbuck

• a rule adopted by an organization in order to regulate its own affairs and the behavior of its members

• erect shrub with small if any spines having racemes of white to yellow flowers followed by curved pointed pods and black shiny seeds; West Indies and Florida

• portable power saw; teeth linked to form an endless chain

• basically shredded cabbage

• plant bearing squash having globose to ovoid fruit with variously striped grey and green and white warty rinds

• globose or ovoid squash with striped grey and green warty rind

• To surgically remove a cats claws; onychectomy.

• To make harmless.

• A vestigial digit, hoof or claw that does not reach the ground.

• front paw; analogous to the human hand

• fine-toothed power saw with a narrow blade; used to cut curved outlines

• A showy trifle, a toy; a showy trinket, ornament or decoration.

• cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing

• a burst of deep loud hearty laughter

• laugh boisterously

• saw used with one hand for cutting metal