BOWEL
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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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Bow"el, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Boweled or Bowelled (&unr_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Boweling or Bowelling.] To take out the bowels of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.
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