bowel

3 definitions found

bowel - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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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  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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bowel - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  bowel
      n 1: the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and
           the anus [syn: intestine, bowel, gut]