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An intenstine; a bowel; the whole alimentary canal; the enteron; (pl.) bowels; entrails.

Half-filled. [Obs.] Lions' half-clammed entrails roar food. Marston.

ne of the sinuous tracks on the surfaces of many stones, and popularly considered as worm trails.

Divination by inspection of entrails of victims offered in sacrifice.

To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; as, to hulk a hare. [R.] Beau. & Fl.

o yield passively to insult or humilitation; -- a phrase derived from a pie made of the entrails or humbles of a deer, which was formerly served to servants and retainers at a hunting feast. See Humbles. Halliwell. Thackeray.

Entrails of a deer. [Written also umbles.] Johnson.

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…

fondly. Like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume. Shak. Rose, rose and clematis, Trail and twine and clasp and kiss. Tennyson. Kissing comfit, a perfumed sugarplum to sweeten the breath. [Obs or Prov. End.] Shak.

A small, herbaceous, trailing plant, of the genus Illecebrum (I. verticillatum.)

ee under Cherry. -- Great laurel, the rosebay (Rhododendron maximum). -- Ground laurel, trailing arbutus. -- New Zealand laurel, Laurelia Novæ Zelandiæ. -- Portugal laurel, the Prunus Lusitanica. -- Rose laurel, the oleander. See Oleander. -- Sheep laurel, a poisonous shrub, Kalmia angustifolia, smaller than the…

In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus (see Arbutus); also, the blossom of these plants.

A trailing plant (Lysimachia Nummularia), with rounded opposite leaves and solitary yellow flowers in their axils.

The small entrails of a calf or a hog.

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

locks and hold them perpendicularly, the handle resting on the bottom of the boat. -- To trail oars, to allow them to trail in the water alongside of the boat. -- To unship the oars, to take them out of the rowlocks.

South Africa (Francolinus pictus). -- Partridge berry. (Bot.) (a) The scarlet berry of a trailing american plant (Mitchella repens) of the order Rubiaceæ, having roundish evergreen leaves, and white fragrant flowers sometimes tinged with purple, growing in pairs with the ovaries united, and producing the berries which…