Nā'vel, n.

(nā'vl), n. [A-S. nafola, na-fela, from nafi, nave; D. navel, Icel. nafi, nabli, Dan. nable, Sw. nafle, O. H. Ger. napalo, napulo, nabalo, nabulo, N. H. Ger. nabel. Cf. supra.]

1. A mark or depression in the center of the lower part of the abdomen, being the scar left by the detachment of the umbilical cord after birth.
2. Hence, the central part or point of any thing; the middle; the midst.

Within the navel of this hideous wood, Immured in cypress shades, a sorcerer dwells. Milton. Navel point (Her.), the point in a shield or escutcheon half way between the fesse point and the middle base point. See ESCUTCHEON.