Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Bowel

Bowel , noun

[Old English bouel, bouele, Old French boel, boele, French boyau, from Latin botellus a small sausage, in Late Latin also intestine, dim. of Latin botulus sausage.]

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. — Shakespeare
3.
The seat of pity or kindness. Hence: Tenderness; compassion.
Thou thing of no bowels. — Shakespeare
Bloody Bonner, that corpulent tyrant, full (as one said) of guts, and empty of bowels. — Fuller
4.
Offspring. [Obsolete] — Shakespeare

Bowel ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb

To take out the bowels of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.