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▪ I. intestine, a.|ɪnˈtɛstɪn|
[ad. L. intestīnus internal, f. intus within. Cf. F. intestin (14th. c. in Littré).]
Internal, belonging to the interior.
1. Internal with regard to a country or people; domestic, civil: usually said of war, feuds, or troubles, also of enemies.
1535Stewart Cron. Scot. III. 374 Till armour all [the Douglasses] drew syne, With dalie stryfe and battell intestyne. 1547J. Harrison Exhort. Scottes B iv b, The inhabitauntes..haue euer sithe been vexed with intestine warres and ciuill discorde. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen IV, i. i. 12 The intestine shocke, And furious cloze of ciuill Butchery. 1672Marvell Reh. Transp. i. 122. 1706 Prior Ode glorious Success 248 Their own intestine feuds and mutual jars. a1764Lloyd Henriade Poet. Wks. 1774 II. 237 Laws abus'd by foul intestine foes. 1869Rawlinson Anc. Hist. 396 Intestine division made the very name of Hellas a mockery.
fig.1602Marston Ant. & Mel. i. Wks. 1856 I. 16 The rocks gron'd At the intestine uprore of the maine. 1633P. Fletcher Pisc. Ecl. vii. xiii, The seas..Thou softly charm'st, and windes intestine ire..Thou quiet laid'st.
†2. Internal with regard to human nature or the nature of things; inward, innate. Obs. rare.
1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. i. (1877) 24 The intestine malice of our owne hearts. a1656Ussher Ann. vii. (1658) 864 Caius..for a time dissembled his intestine anger to Petronius. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. i. §1. 3 Everything Naturally labours under an Intestine Necessity.
†3. Internal with regard to the body; seated in the bowels; intestinal. Obs.
1613R. Cawdrey Table Alph. (ed. 3), Intestine,..belonging to the inward parts. 1616Bullokar, Intestine, bred in the bowels. a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. i. xiii. §3 (1622) 140 His plague was seated into his bowells, which tormented him with an intestine torture. 1727Swift Gulliver iv. vi, Human bodies..every part, external and intestine, having diseases appropriated to itself.
4. Internal with reference to any thing or place. Obs. (exc. as fig. from 1 or 3).
1664Evelyn Sylva (1776) 290 With Fir, we likewise make all intestine Works as Wainscot, floors [etc.]. 1671R. Bohun Wind 33 Those suddain tumors, which happen in the rivers..neer Bourdeaux, seem to be the effects of intestine winds. 1784Cowper Task vi. 139 It sleeps; and the icy touch Of unprolific winter has impress'd A cold stagnation on the intestine tide.
b. intestine motion: Motion entirely within, or among the molecules of, a body.
1664Power Exp. Philos. Pref. 11 If the very nature of fluidity consist in the Intestine motion of the parts of that Body call'd fluid. 1692Bentley Boyle Lect. iv. 116. 1717 J. Keill Anim. Oecon. (1738) 111 If the attracting Corpuscles are elastick, they must necessarily produce an intestine Motion. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. (1856) 546 The polar basin is not only the seat of an active supply and discharge, but of an intestine circulation independent of either. 1862H. Spencer First Princ. ii. xiii. §100 (1875) 291 When the atoms are kept in a state of intestine agitation.
Hence inˈtestineness (Bailey vol. II, 1727).
▪ II. intestine, n.|ɪnˈtɛstɪn|
Also 7 intestin, and in L. form inteˈstinum, pl. -a.
[ad. L. intestīnum n., neuter of intestīnus adj.: see prec.]
1. The lower part of the alimentary canal, from the pyloric end of the stomach to the anus, constituting what are popularly called the bowels or guts. In ordinary use, commonly pl. intestines; the singular is applied to each of the two distinct parts, the small intestine (comprising the duodenum, jejunum, and ileum), and the large intestine (comprising the cæcum, colon, and rectum), and also, in scientific use, to the canal as a whole; in biology, it is often extended to include the whole alimentary canal from the mouth downward, especially in invertebrate animals.
a. pl..
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 20/2 The intestines or entralls beinge verye ill disposed and ill at ease. 1625B. Jonson Staple of N. v. v, Alm. We shall see thorow him. P. sen. And his gut colon, tell his intestina. 1649T. Watson God's Anat. 2 The Priest did divide the Beast in peeces, and so the intestina, the inward parts, were made visible. 1656Ridgley Pract. Physick 1 The Cause is..the shortness of the Intestins. 1695tr. Colbatch's New Lt. Chirurg. put out 38 Both Liver and Intestines were wounded. 1767Gooch Treat. Wounds I. 116 A total division of the small intestines, is to be looked upon as a mortal wound. 1800Med. Jrnl. IV. 518 The contents of the stomach and intestines were of a similar nature. 1869Huxley Physiol. vi. §21.
b. singular.
1651Raleigh's Ghost 219 Their hindermost intestine or gut became putrified. 1681Cotton Wond. Peak (ed. 4) 49 The Subterranean People ready stand..To guide, who are to penetrate inclined The Intestinum Rectum of the Fiend. 1803Med. Jrnl. X. 248 The intestine, which alone formed the hernia, was of a deep red colour. 1807–26S. Cooper First Lines Surg. (ed. 5) 437 Wounds of the abdomen, attended with injury of the intestine. 1869Huxley Physiol. vi. §21 The duodenum..is..that part of the small intestine which immediately succeeds the stomach... The rectum..is that part of the large intestine which opens externally. 1884M. Mackenzie Dis. Throat & Nose II. 221 The cephalic portion of the intestine originates from the epiblast.
†2. fig. The inmost part or member. Obs. rare.
a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) E iv b, The frend, whiche is the intestyne of the heart. |