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3 definitions found 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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