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 ]
He burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out. Acts i. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]
His soldiers . . . cried out amain,
And rushed into the bowels of the battle. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Bloody Bonner, that corpulent tyrant, full (as one said) of guts, and empty of bowels. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
a.
a. Without pity. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ See Bowel, v. t. ] To disembowel. [ R. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ See Embowel. ]
Soon after their death, they are disemboweled. Cook. [ 1913 Webster ]
Roaring floods and cataracts that sweep
From disemboweled earth the virgin gold. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The act of disemboweling, or state of being disemboweled; evisceration. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
The barbarous practice of emboweling. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]
The boar . . . makes his trough
In your emboweled bosoms. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ Disembowel is the preferable word in this sense. [ 1913 Webster ]
Or deep emboweled in the earth entire. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who takes out the bowels.
n. Disembowelment. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. See Embowel. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.