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Webster 1913 Edition

Bowel

Bow′el

,
Noun.
[OE.
bouel
,
bouele
, OF.
boel
,
boele
, F.
boyau
, fr. L.
botellus
a small sausage, in LL. also intestine, dim. of L.
botulus
sausage.]
1.
One of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially of man; a gut; – generally used in the plural.
He burst asunder in the midst, and all his
bowels
gushed out.
Acts i. 18.
2.
pl.
Hence, figuratively: The interior part of anything;
as, the
bowels
of the earth
.
His soldiers . . . cried out amain,
And rushed into the
bowels
of the battle.
Shakespeare
3.
pl.
The seat of pity or kindness. Hence: Tenderness; compassion.
“Thou thing of no bowels.”
Shak.
Bloody Bonner, that corpulent tyrant, full (as one said) of guts, and empty of
bowels
.
Fuller.
4.
pl.
Offspring.
[Obs.]
Shak.

Bow′el

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Boweled
or
Bowelled
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Boweling
or
Bowelling
.]
To take out the bowels of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.

Webster 1828 Edition

Bowel

BOW'EL

,
Verb.
T.
To take out the bowels; to eviscerate; to penetrate the bowels.

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