Bowel

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bowel \Bow"el\, n. [OE. bouel, bouele, OF. boel, boele, F.
     boyau, fr. L. botellus a small sausage, in LL. also
     intestine, dim. of L. botulus sausage.]
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     1. One of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially
        of man; a gut; -- generally used in the plural.


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              He burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels
              gushed out.                           --Acts i. 18.
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     2. pl. Hence, figuratively: The interior part of anything;
        as, the bowels of the earth.
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              His soldiers . . . cried out amain,
              And rushed into the bowels of the battle. --Shak.
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     3. pl. The seat of pity or kindness. Hence: Tenderness;
        compassion. "Thou thing of no bowels." --Shak.
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              Bloody Bonner, that corpulent tyrant, full (as one
              said) of guts, and empty of bowels.   --Fuller.
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     4. pl. Offspring. [Obs.] --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bowel \Bow"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Boweled} or {Bowelled}; p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Boweling} or {Bowelling}.]
     To take out the bowels of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  bowel
       n : the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the
           anus [syn: {intestine}, {gut}]