Bowel /(?)/

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

   He burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.

2. Hence, figuratively: The interior part of anything; as, the bowels of the earth.

   His soldiers . . . cried out amain, And rushed into the bowels of the battle.

3. The seat of pity or kindness. Hence: Tenderness; compassion.

   Bloody Bonner, that corpulent tyrant, full (as one said) of guts, and empty of bowels.

4. Offspring. [Obs.]

imp. & p. p. Boweled; p. pr. & vb. n. Boweling

1. To take out the bowels of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.