bow·el /ˈbaʊ(ə)l/
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bow·el /ˈbaʊ(ə)l/ 名詞
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Bow·el n.
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.”
Bloody Bonner, that corpulent tyrant, full (as one said) of guts, and empty of bowels. --Fuller.
4. pl. Offspring. [Obs.]
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.
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bowel
n : the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the
anus [syn: intestine, gut]