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Equal. [Obs.] Burrill.

Equality; -- sometimes written ovelty and ovealty. Burrill.

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.

A piece of wood driven into a wall, so that other pieces may be nailed to it. Dowel joint, a joint secured by a dowel or dowels. -- Dowel pin, a dowel. See Dowel, n.,

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 smooth; to plane; as, to howel a cask.

The upper stage of a porcelian furnace.

See Embowel.

Christmas; also, a shout of joy at Christmas for the birth of the Savior. [Obs.]

A gratuity given to tenants after they had reaped their lord's corn. [Obs.]

The little wheel of a spur, with sharp points. With sounding whip, and rowels dyed in blood. Cowper.

See rewel bone. [Obs.]

A sound intermediate between a vowel and a consonant, or partaking of the nature of both, as in the English w and y.