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   Bowel , 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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   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.
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   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.
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   pl. The seat of pity or kindness. Hence: Tenderness; compassion. “Thou thing of no bowels.” 
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   Bloody Bonner, that corpulent tyrant, full (as one said) of guts, and empty of bowels.
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   pl. Offspring. [Obs.]
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   Bowel, 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.
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