bowel

noun

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Pronunciation: /ˈbaʊ.əl/ / /baʊl/

Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French bouel, from Old French boïel, from Latin botellus, diminutive of botulus (“sausage”). Doublet of boyau.

A part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine.
The entrails or intestines; the internal organs of the stomach.
“And when he was hanged, brast asondre in the myddes, and all his bowels gusshed out.”
“Leaue words & let them feele your lances pointes, UUhich glided through the bowels of the Greekes.”
The (deep) interior of something.
“The treasures were stored in the bowels of the ship.”
“His soldiers […] cried out amain, / And rushed into the bowels of the battle.”
The seat of pity or the gentler emotions; pity or mercy.
“Thou thing of no bowels, thou!”
“Bloody Bonner, that corpulent tyrant, full (as one said) of guts, and empty of bowels.”
offspring
“Friend hast thou none, / For thine own bowels, which do call thee sire,”

Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French bouel, from Old French boïel, from Latin botellus, diminutive of botulus (“sausage”). Doublet of boyau.

To disembowel.
“Their bodies are first bowelled, then dried upon hurdles till they be very dry [...].”