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Having bowels; hollow. "The boweled cavern." Thomson.

rth. Milton. And now you burst (ah cruel!) from my arms. Pope. A resolved villain Whose bowels suddenly burst out. Shak. We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea. Coleridge. To burst upon him like an earthquake. Goldsmith.

A Welshman.

A casket; a small box for jewels. [Obs.] Shak.

A small chest or box, esp. of rich material or ornamental character, as for jewels, etc. The little casket bring me hither. Shak.

A natural or artificial purgation of any passage, as of the mouth, bowels, etc.

Cleansing the bowels; promoting evacuations by stool; purgative.

A perennial alliaceous plant (Allium fistulosum), sometimes called Welsh onion. Its fistular leaves areused in cookery.

of the prefix com-, signifying with, together, in conjunction, joint. It is used before vowels and some consonants. See Com-.

To unite, as timbers, by means of tenons or dowels in the edges or face. Totten.

Of or pertaining to colic; affecting the bowels. Milton.

An ailment or disease of the body. One in a complaint of his bowels. Arbuthnot.

iety of configurations [of the mouth] . . . which gives birth and origin to the several vowels. Harris.

A state of the bowels in which the evacuations are infrequent and difficult, or the intestines become filled with hardened faces; costiveness.

ver, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also pulmonary consumption. Consumption of the bowels (Med.), inflammation and ulceration of the intestines from tubercular disease.

A method of pronouncing Latin and Greek in which the vowels have their more familiar Continental values, as in German and Italian, the consonants being pronounced mostly as in English. The stricter form of this method of pronouncing Latin approaches the Roman, the modified form the English, pronunciation. The Continent…

To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.

rd, or of two words, by the omission of a letter or letters, or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one; as, ne'er for never; can't for can not; don't for do not; it's for it is.

Retaining fecal matter in the bowels; having too slow a motion of the bowels; constipated.

An unnatural retention of the fecal matter of the bowels; constipation.