Found 3 hits - Term: bowel, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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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.
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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.
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4. pl. offspring. obs. --shak.
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- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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
see also:
boweled bowelled boweling bowelling
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
bowel
n : the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the
anus syn: intestine, gut
see also:
intestine gut
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