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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Em·bow·el v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emboweled or Embowelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Emboweling or Embowelling.]
 1. To disembowel.
    The barbarous practice of emboweling.   --Hallam.
 The boar . . . makes his trough
 In your emboweled bosoms.   --Shak.
 Note:Disembowel is the preferable word in this sense.
 2. To imbed; to hide in the inward parts; to bury.
    Or deep emboweled in the earth entire.   --Spenser.