BOWELS

bowels

(noun) the center of the Earth

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Noun

bowels

plural of bowel

Noun

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.

Synonyms

• (deepest or innermost part): centre/center, core, heart

• (intestines): entrails, guts, intestines

Anagrams

• Belows, Blowes, Bowles, Lebows, blowes, blowse, bowles, elbows

Source: Wiktionary

BOWEL

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