bowels
(noun) the center of the Earth
Source: WordNet® 3.1
bowels
plural of bowel
bowels pl (plural only)
The deepest or innermost part.
The concept or quality that defines something at its very core.
The intestines.
Compassion, sympathy.
(obsolete) The body as the source of offspring.
• (deepest or innermost part): centre/center, core, heart
• (intestines): entrails, guts, intestines
• Belows, Blowes, Bowles, Lebows, blowes, blowse, bowles, elbows
Source: Wiktionary
Bow"el, n. Etym: [OE. bouel, bouele, OF. boel, boele, F. boyau, fr. L. botellus a small sausage, in LL. also intestine, dim. of L. 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. pl.
Definition: 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. pl.
Definition: 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.
4. pl.
Definition: Offspring. [Obs.] Shak.
Bow"el, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Boweled or Bowelled; p. pr.& vb. n. Boweling or Bowelling.]
Definition: To take out the bowels of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
Contrary to popular belief, coffee beans are not technically beans. They are referred to as such because of their resemblance to legumes. A coffee bean is a seed of the Coffea plant and the source for coffee. It is the pit inside the red or purple fruit, often referred to as a cherry. Just like ordinary cherries, the coffee fruit is also a so-called stone fruit.
