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noun

Bowel n.

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."

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."

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

pl. Offspring. (Obs.)

verb

Bowel v. t. (past & past part. boweled or bowelled; pres. part. boweling or bowelling) To take out the bowels of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.

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... to which the climate (in common with all damp ones) is not at all suited; such are especially dysentery, bowel complaints, and liver complaints of long standing; which are not benefited by a residence on these hills, though how much worse they might have become in the plains is not shown. I cannot hear that the climate aggravates, ...

— Himalayan Journals (Complete) • J. D. Hooker

... the saints began their reign, For which they'd yearn'd so long in vain, And felt such bowel-hankerings, To see an empire, all of kings. 1557 BUTLER: Hudibras, Pt. ...

— Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations • Various

... on account of sickness was while we were in camp here. One day I took a company of sick to the doctor. I staid by till he had passed out the last dose. We had three remedies, one of which would hit any possible case. They were opium pills, castor oil and quinine. The pills cured all bowel troubles; castor oil lubricated and opened up the internal functions, and quinine cured everything else. I remarked to the doctor that I would rather like to experience the sensation of being excused from duty and placed on the sick list for one day. Nothing in particular was doing, so the ...

— Personal Recollections of the War of 1861 • Charles Augustus Fuller

... trip that one of Mr. Bennett's ox drivers was taken with a serious bowel difficulty, and for many days we thought he would die, but he eventually recovered. His ...

— Death Valley in '49 • William Lewis Manly

... diseases, such as chronic catarrh and pulmonary consumption, are in many cases produced by indigestion; which in turn had its source in chronic constipation caused by injury or inflammation of the lower bowel, as explained in ...

— Intestinal Ills • Alcinous Burton Jamison

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