Bow'el1, n.
(bou'el), n. [O. Fr. boel, boele, boiele, buele, boiaus, N. Fr. boyau, boyaux, Pr. & O. Sp. budel, It. budello, from Lat. botellus, a small sausage, dim. of botulus, sausage, originally intestine; thus in L. Lat.: si intestina vel botelli perforati claudi non potuerunt.]
Sense 1. One of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially of man; a gut; — chiefly used in the plural.
He burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out. Acts i. 18.
Sense 2. Hence, figuratively, the interior part of any thing; as, the bowels of the earth.
His soldiers . . . cried out amain, And rushed into the bowels of the battle. Shak.
Sense 3. 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.