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To relieve from constipation; to loosen; to open; as, an aperient relaxes the bowels.

a liquid, resembling rice water in appearance, which is vomited, and discharged from the bowels, in cholera. -- Rice weevil (Zoöl.), a small beetle (Calandra, or Sitophilus, oryzæ) which destroys rice, wheat, and Indian corn by eating out the interior; -- called also black weevil.

Relaxed; open or readily opened. [R.] "The bowels must be kept soluble." Dunglison. Soluble glass. (Chem.) See under Glass.

A seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.

ll by being pressed or packed into. With inward arms the dire machine they load, And iron bowels stuff the dark abode. Dryden.

A griping of the bowels.

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

Air or gas generated in the stomach or bowels; flatulence; as, to be troubled with wind.

To act or operate on the stomach and bowels, as a cathartic. Purges . . . work best, that is, cause the blood so to do, . . . in warm weather or in a warm room. Grew.

ith emotions of affection or tenderness; to long; to be eager. Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother; and he sought where to weep. Gen. xliii. 30. Your mother's heart yearns towards you. Addison.