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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.]
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. --Shak.
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
bowel
n : the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the
anus [syn: {intestine}, {gut}]
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