\Bow"el\, n. [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. 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. 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. Offspring. [Obs.] --Shak.

\Bow"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Boweled} or {Bowelled}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Boweling} or {Bowelling}.]
To take out the bowels of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.