bowel Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus
intestine; gut.

OE. bouel, bouele, OF. boel, boele, F. boyau, fr. L. botellus a small sausage, in LL. also intestine, dim. of L. botulus sausage.

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. Acts i. 18.
pl. 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. Shak.
pl. The seat of pity or kindness. Hence: Tenderness; compassion. "Thou thing of no bowels." Shak.
Bloody Bonner, that corpulent tyrant, full (as one said) of guts, and empty of bowels. Fuller.
pl. Offspring. Obs. Shak.

imperfect & past participle Boweled or Bowelled present participle & verbal noun Boweling or Bowelling