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f man; a gut; -- generally used in the plural. He burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out. Acts i. 18.

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

Without pity. Sir T. Browne.

To disembowel. [R.] Spenser.

To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate. Soon after their death, they are disemboweled. Cook. Roaring floods and cataracts that sweep From disemboweled earth the virgin gold. Thomson.

The act of disemboweling, or state of being disemboweled; evisceration.

To disembowel. The barbarous practice of emboweling. Hallam. The boar . . . makes his trough In your emboweled bosoms. Shak.

One who takes out the bowels. [Written also emboweller.]

Disembowelment.

See Embowel.

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

lso, the cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the stomach, bowels, and other viscera. In man, often restricted to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvic cavity.

Any substance which absorbs and neutralizes acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia, chalk, etc.; also a substance e. g., iodine) which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts.

Gently opening the bowels; laxative. -- n.

of the human body which extends downward from the breast to the thighs, and contains the bowels, or intestines; the abdomen.

Pain in the bowels; colic.

To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action; as, certain drugs bind the bowels.

The dysentery, a disease in which the flux or discharge from the bowels has a mixture of blood. Arbuthnot.

A rumbling or gurgling noise produced by wind in the bowels. Dunglison.

forth. 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.