bowel

Noun

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anusSynonyms: intestine gut

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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.] [1913 Webster]

1.One of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially of man; a gut; -- generally used in the plural. [1913 Webster]

He burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.— Acts i. 18.[1913 Webster]

2.pl. Hence, figuratively: The interior part of anything; as, the bowels of the earth. [1913 Webster]

His soldiers . . . cried out amain, And rushed into the bowels of the battle.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

3.pl. The seat of pity or kindness. Hence: Tenderness; compassion. "Thou thing of no bowels." --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Bloody Bonner, that corpulent tyrant, full (as one said) of guts, and empty of bowels.— Fuller.[1913 Webster]

4.pl. Offspring. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]