Bowel

n.	1.
	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. - Acts i. 18.
	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. - Shak.
	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. - Fuller.
	4.	Offspring.
v. t.	1.	To take out the bowels of; to eviscerate; to disembowel. [imp. & p. p. Boweled or Bowelled ( ); p. pr. & vb. n. Boweling or Bowelling.]

Noun

1.

bowel - the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus Synonyms: gut, intestine

Pronunciation: (BAH-wul)

Another word for the small and large intestines.

abdomen, belly, gut, hindgut, internal organ, intestine, large intestine, small intestine, stomach, venter, viscus

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