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To bend like a bow; to curve. "Embowed arches." [Obs. or R.] Sir W. Scott. With gilded horns embowed like the moon. Spenser.

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.

To lodge or rest in a bower. [Poetic] "In their wide boughs embow'ring. " Spenser.

To form like a bowl; to give a globular shape to. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

t 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.

Deprived of, or removed from, a bower. [Poetic] Bryant.

Having lofty arches. "The high-embowed roof." Milton.

To take out the bowels of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.

To embower; to inclose. Shak.

A narrow dale; a small dell; a small, secluded, and embowered valley.

To disembowel. [R.] Spenser.

To disembowel; to let out or draw forth, as the entrails. [Obs.] As if he thought her soul to disentrail. Spenser.

To rip open; todisembowel. [Obs.] Sir. T. Brown.

The act af disemboweling.

To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; to gut.

A disemboweling.

To take out the bowels or entrails of; to disembowel; to eviscerate; as, exenterated fishes. [R.] Exenterated rule-mongers and eviscerated logicians. Hare.