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Divination by the heads or the entrails of fishes.

The inward parts; entrails; bowels; hence, that which is within; private thoughts and feelings. Here's none but friends; we may speak Our insides freely. Massinger.

Entrail or inside. [Obs.] G. Fletcher.

The bowels; entrails; viscera. Large intestine (Human Anat. & Med.), the lower portion of the bowel, terminating at the anus. It is adapted for the retention of fecal matter, being shorter, broader, and less convoluted than the small intestine; it consists of three parts, the cæcum, colon, and rectum. -- Small intesti…

The small entrails of a calf or a hog.

The entrails of a deer; the umbles. [Written also numbles.] Johnson.

ne with pegs; to restrict or limit closely. I will rend an oak And peg thee in his knotty entrails. Shak.

A part of the entrails of the beast taken, given to the hounds.

The entrails of a fowl, especially of game, as the woodcock, and the like; -- applied also, sometimes, to the entrails of sheep. The woodcock is a favorite with epicures, and served with its trail in, is a delicious dish. Baird.

The entrails; hence, humorously or in contempt, the belly; -- generally used in the plural. Howell.

The entrails and coarser parts of a deer; hence, sometimes, entrails, in general. [Written also humbles.] Johnson.

To deprive of the entrails; to disembowel. Dr. H. More.

To deprive of the viscera, or entrails; to eviscerate; to disembowel.

ted; esp., matter ejected from the stomach through the mouth. Like vomit from his yawning entrails poured. Sandys.

twigs or osiers, or wickerwork. Each one a little wicker basket had, Made of fine twigs, entrailéd curiously. Spenser.