boweln.¹

/ˈbaʊɪl/

Forms: Middle English buel, Middle English bewelle, bouel, Middle English–1500s bowele, bowelle, Middle English bawelly, boel, bowalle, bowaly, bowyle, boyell, Middle English–1700s bowell, Middle English– bowel.

Etymology: Middle English buel , bouel , < Old French boel, buel, bouel, masculine (also boele , buele , bouele feminine) = Provençal budel , Italian budello < late Latin botellus pudding, sausage (Martial), in late popular Latin ‘a small intestine’, diminutive of botulus a sausage (compare also pudding n.).

I. singular.

a. One of the divisions of the alimentary canal below the stomach; an intestine, a gut. Now rare in the singular except in medical use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > intestines > [noun]

tharma700

ropeeOE

wombeOE

entrailc1330

arse-ropesa1382

entraila1382

bowel1393

bellyc1400

manifold?c1400

gutc1460

tripe?a1505

trillibub1519

puddingsa1525

singles1567

fibre1598

intestine1598

gutlet1615

colon1622

garbage1638

pud1706

intestinule1836

1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 265 She toke her after the bowele Of the seewolf.

c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 293 In a bouel of þat best he [Jonah] bidez on lyue.

1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde ii. vi. 75 They [the Olyphaunts] haue to fore them in maner of boyell grete and large.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Brasten bowell, bubonocele.

1884 Nature 27 Mar. 497/1 The seat of the disease, namely, the bowel.

†b. Gut (as a material). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > other animal raw materials > [noun] > gut

bowela1475

therm1549

tharm1671

guta1774

tharm-string1787

a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 5 Harpe strynges made of bowel.

†c. Any internal organ of the body. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > internal organs > [noun]

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entrailc1330

innerera1340

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in-parta1629

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viscus1728

inside1741

trollibags1824

innards1825

interior1835

splanchnology1842

work1884

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 46 Bowalle or bowelle, viscus.

1620 T. Venner Via Recta viii. 169 These two bowels, especially the liuer, doe vehemently desire sweete things.

1674 R. Godfrey Var. Injuries in Physick 118 The Stomach..so useful and necessary a Bowel that no Animal lives without it.

1752 T. Simson Inq. Vital & Animal Actions v. 224 No bowel is more frequently mutilated..than the brain.

II. plural collectively.

a. The intestines or entrails; the portions of the intestinal canal contained within the abdomen.

ΚΠ

c1300 K. Alis. 4668 Theo bowelis weoren y-nomen out, And for-brent.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. xlii. 158 The bowelles ben cominly called the guttes.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 16505 He brest in tua his buels [Trin. Cambr. boweles] all, vte at his wambe þai wrang.

1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 111 Good for the brekinge and bursting of the bowelles.

1611 Bible (King James) Ezek. vii. 19 They shall not satisfie their soules, neither fill their bowels .

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 800 They return, and howle and gnaw My Bowels, their repast.

1758 S. Johnson Idler 5 Aug. 137 The anatomical novice tears out the living bowels of an animal.

1804 J. Abernethy Surg. Observ. 154 [It] brought on so violent an affection of his bowels.

1813 J. Thomson Lect. Inflammation 189 Bathing the feet and legs gives relief in inflammation of the bowels.

†b. The (external) belly. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1703 London Gaz. No. 3932/4 Several Warts on him [a horse], one on his Ear, one on his Breast and Bowels.

c. The interior or inside of the body; also figurative. Cf. womb n., heart n., bosom n., breast n. (rarely singular)

ΚΠ

1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 497/2 I shall gyue my law in their bowele.

?a1562 G. Cavendish Life Wolsey (1959) 72 I do bothe lake wytt in my grosse old hed & Cunnyng in my bowelles.

1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie vi. 33 God will not haue vs to fall..to pulling out of his bowels as they doe which will needes bee searching out of measure.

1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xv. 4 But he that shall come foorth out of thy owne bowels .

a. transferred. (Considered as the seat of the tender and sympathetic emotions, hence): Pity, compassion, feeling, ‘heart’. Chiefly plural, and now somewhat archaic. Cf. heart n., int., and adv., breast n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > compassion > [noun]

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tendresse1390

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tendernessa1400

compunction1430

bowels of compassion1526

remorse1538

commiseration1582

kindheartedness1583

commorse1595

earning1603

tender-heartedness1607

compassionateness1614

visceraa1651

ruthfulness1674

karuna1850

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > [noun] > progeny or offspring

bairn-teamc885

childeOE

tudderc897

seedOE

teamOE

wastum971

offspringOE

i-cundeOE

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infantment1483

blood issue1535

propagation1536

offspring1548

race1549

family?1552

increase1552

breed1574

begetting1611

sperm1641

bed1832

fruitage1850

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > belly or abdomen > [noun]

boukc1000

stomachc1400

abdomen?1541

venter1706

bowel1708

bingy1859

Ned Kelly1945

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Phil. i. 8 Hou I coueite ȝou alle in the bowelis of Jhesu Crist.

c1440 Gesta Romanorum 24 Whenne she sawe his blody serke, all her bowelis weere troubelyd more than tunge may telle.

1611 Bible (King James) Phil. ii. 1 If any bowels and mercies.

1651 Severall Proc. Parl. No. 110. 1695 Want of bowels in preaching towards them who are in hazard to perish.

1655 T. Fuller Hist. Waltham-Abby 18 in Church-hist. Brit. Bloudy Bonner..full (as one said) of guts and empty of bowels.

1685 J. Crowne Sir Courtly Nice i. 5 The Family is a sad Family, and I tarry out of pure Bowels.

1708 London Gaz. No. 4427/2 To shew their Bowels for their Country.

1798 Anti-Jacobin 14 May 214/2 'Twould have moved a Christian's bowels To hear the doubts he stated.

1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram I. i. ii. 31 I am a man what can feel for my neighbours. I have bowels—yes, I have bowels.

1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xiii. i. 402 Had idle readers any bowels for him; which they have not.

b. In various archaic phrases as: bowels of compassion, bowels mercies, bowels pity, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > compassion > [noun]

rutha1200

ruenessa1225

ruefulnessc1225

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pityc1300

ruea1325

compassionc1340

midtholing1340

miserationa1382

rueinga1382

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mildc1390

tendresse1390

ruefulhead?a1400

ruthnessa1400

tendernessa1400

compunction1430

bowels of compassion1526

remorse1538

commiseration1582

kindheartedness1583

commorse1595

earning1603

tender-heartedness1607

compassionateness1614

visceraa1651

ruthfulness1674

karuna1850

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. KKvi^v Close nat your bowelles of charite fro them.

1611 Bible (King James) Coloss. iii. 12 Put on therefore..bowels of mercies.

1642 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici ii. §2 Upon the bare suggestion and bowels of pity.

1794 W. Godwin Caleb Williams III. xi. 194 The law has neither eyes, nor ears, nor bowels of humanity.

1873 J. Morley Rousseau II. 218 note It has none of the yearnings of the bowels of tenderness.

4. The interior of anything; heart, centre. Cf. belly n. 9.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being internal > [noun] > that which is within > interior part(s)

inwardness1388

entrail?c1400

entrail1434

bowel1548

pluck1611

viscera1709

embowelment1821

internals1899

innards1903

1548 Duke of Somerset Epist. Inhabitauntes Scotl. 243 Be we not in y^e bowels now of the realme?

1584 G. Whetstone Mirour for Magestrates f. 22 Dicyng Houses..within the Bowelles of the famous Citie of London.

1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Hay any Worke for Cooper A iij Thou wilt enter into the bowels of the cause in hand.

a1593 H. Smith Wks. (1867) II. 265 Three days and three nights in the bowels of the earth.

1696 W. Whiston New Theory of Earth ii. 78 All Volcano's, or subterraneous Fires, are in the Bowels of some Mountain.

1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. 364 That monster in true policy..a body of men, residing in the bowels of a state, and yet independent of it's laws.

c1860 M. Faraday Var. Forces Nature vi. 164 Brought together in the bowels of the earth.

†5. Offspring, children. Obsolete. [Compare Latin viscera.]

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [noun] > offspring

seedOE

offspringOE

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propagation1536

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increase1552

breed1574

spawn1590

bowela1593

teeming1599

pullulation1641

prolifications1646

educt1677

produce1823

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > descendant > [noun] > collectively

bairn-teamc885

kinc950

seedOE

teamOE

offspringOE

kindOE

childrenc1175

lineage1303

generationa1325

issuea1325

successiona1340

kindredc1350

progenya1382

posterityc1410

sequelc1440

ligneea1450

posterior1509

genealogy1513

propagation1536

racea1547

postery1548

after-spring1583

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afterworld1594

loin1608

descendance1617

succession1618

proles1640

descent1667

ramage1936

1526 Bible (Tyndale) Philemon 12 Receave him, that is to saye myne awne bowels.

1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 343 Sum put to it wormes or bowels of the earth.]

a1593 H. Smith Serm. (1871) I. 289 We should not spare our own bowels.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iii. i. 29 Thine owne bowels which do call thee, sire [printed fire] .

a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) i. 7 Men..bowelless unto others, and merciless unto their own bowels.

Compounds

C1.

bowel-complaint n.

ΚΠ

1831 J. M. Peck Guide for Emigrants ii. 84 The bowel complaint is more commonly fatal.

1850 N. Kingsley Diary 156 Indisposed by a bowel complaint.

bowel-like adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > intestines > [adjective]

intestinal1599

tripal1709

enteric1764

bowel-like1839

intestiniform1859

intestino-vesical1867

enteral1905

1839–47 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. III. 549/1 The stomach [of Iulus] is long and bowel-like.

bowel-racking adj.

C2.

bowel-deep adj. up to or as high as the middle.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > vertical extent > extension downwards or depth > [adjective] > of specific depth > in something to specific depth

knee-deepc1400

breast-deep1594

lip-deep1780

bowel-deep1828

bone deep1900

1828 W. Scott Rev. Davy's Salmonia (1849) 260 Bowel-deep in the stream.

bowel-galled adj. ? applied to a horse whose belly is fretted with the girth.

† bowel-gazer n. Obsolete one who inspects the entrails of sacrificed animals for religious purposes, a haruspex.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > divination by entrails, haruspicy > [noun] > one who practises

haruspex1584

bowel-gazer1587

bowel-prier1600

paunch-porer1656

extispex1727

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxii. 383 Seneca sayth..that the Bowelgazers were inuented for nothing els but to holde the people in awe.

bowel-gazing n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > divination by entrails, haruspicy > [noun]

haruspicy1569

bowel-gazing1587

ventriloquy1623

paunch-poring1656

extispicy1681

extispicine1693

haruspiciny1693

enteroscopy1726

haruspication1871

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxxii. 606 Where be your Oracles, your Bowelgazings and your Sacrifices?

bowel-hive n. (also bowel-hive grass) a herbalists' name for Alchemilla arvensis or Parsley-piert (Britten and Holland).

ΚΠ

1878 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names 60 Bowel-hive, or Bowel-hive Grass, Alchemilla arvensis.

bowel-hives n. Scottish a popular name for infantile enteritis and similar affections.

ΚΠ

1715 A. Pennecuik Geogr., Hist. Descr. Tweeddale 7 The Rickets in Children, which they call the Bowel-hyve.

1863 Rept. Registrar Gen. Scot. ‘Bowel-hives’ (or ‘bull-hives’), the vernacular name under which is included enteritis, convulsions, diarrhœa, dysentery, and teething.

bowel-prier n. Obsolete

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > divination by entrails, haruspicy > [noun] > one who practises

haruspex1584

bowel-gazer1587

bowel-prier1600

paunch-porer1656

extispex1727

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xlii. xxx. 1132 The Bowell-priers [L. aruspices]..declared, That..they should make speed.

bowel-prying adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > divination by entrails, haruspicy > [adjective]

haruspicine1591

bowel-prying1600

extispicious1646

haruspical1652

haruspicate1652

haruspicinal1652

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. viii. 287 The bowell-prying Soothsaier.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	bowel
释义	boweln.¹ /ˈbaʊɪl/ Forms: Middle English buel, Middle English bewelle, bouel, Middle English–1500s bowele, bowelle, Middle English bawelly, boel, bowalle, bowaly, bowyle, boyell, Middle English–1700s bowell, Middle English– bowel. Etymology: Middle English buel , bouel , < Old French boel, buel, bouel, masculine (also boele , buele , bouele feminine) = Provençal budel , Italian budello < late Latin botellus pudding, sausage (Martial), in late popular Latin ‘a small intestine’, diminutive of botulus a sausage (compare also pudding n.). I. singular. 1. a. One of the divisions of the alimentary canal below the stomach; an intestine, a gut. Now rare in the singular except in medical use. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > intestines > [noun] tharma700 ropeeOE wombeOE entrailc1330 arse-ropesa1382 entraila1382 bowel1393 bellyc1400 manifold?c1400 gutc1460 tripe?a1505 trillibub1519 puddingsa1525 singles1567 fibre1598 intestine1598 gutlet1615 colon1622 garbage1638 pud1706 intestinule1836 1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 265 She toke her after the bowele Of the seewolf. c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 293 In a bouel of þat best he [Jonah] bidez on lyue. 1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde ii. vi. 75 They [the Olyphaunts] haue to fore them in maner of boyell grete and large. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Brasten bowell, bubonocele. 1884 Nature 27 Mar. 497/1 The seat of the disease, namely, the bowel. †b. Gut (as a material). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > other animal raw materials > [noun] > gut bowela1475 therm1549 tharm1671 guta1774 tharm-string1787 a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 5 Harpe strynges made of bowel. †c. Any internal organ of the body. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > internal organs > [noun] innethc888 guta1000 inwardc1000 inwarda1300 entrailc1330 innerera1340 entraila1382 inwardness1388 bowelc1440 paunch?c1475 umbles1536 parts entire1596 inmeat1616 in-parta1629 internalsa1629 giblet1647 viscera1651 pluck1711 viscus1728 inside1741 trollibags1824 innards1825 interior1835 splanchnology1842 work1884 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 46 Bowalle or bowelle, viscus. 1620 T. Venner Via Recta viii. 169 These two bowels, especially the liuer, doe vehemently desire sweete things. 1674 R. Godfrey Var. Injuries in Physick 118 The Stomach..so useful and necessary a Bowel that no Animal lives without it. 1752 T. Simson Inq. Vital & Animal Actions v. 224 No bowel is more frequently mutilated..than the brain. II. plural collectively. 2. a. The intestines or entrails; the portions of the intestinal canal contained within the abdomen. ΚΠ c1300 K. Alis. 4668 Theo bowelis weoren y-nomen out, And for-brent. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. xlii. 158 The bowelles ben cominly called the guttes. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 16505 He brest in tua his buels [Trin. Cambr. boweles] all, vte at his wambe þai wrang. 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 111 Good for the brekinge and bursting of the bowelles. 1611 Bible (King James) Ezek. vii. 19 They shall not satisfie their soules, neither fill their bowels . View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 800 They return, and howle and gnaw My Bowels, their repast. View more context for this quotation 1758 S. Johnson Idler 5 Aug. 137 The anatomical novice tears out the living bowels of an animal. 1804 J. Abernethy Surg. Observ. 154 [It] brought on so violent an affection of his bowels. 1813 J. Thomson Lect. Inflammation 189 Bathing the feet and legs gives relief in inflammation of the bowels. †b. The (external) belly. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1703 London Gaz. No. 3932/4 Several Warts on him [a horse], one on his Ear, one on his Breast and Bowels. c. The interior or inside of the body; also figurative. Cf. womb n., heart n., bosom n., breast n. (rarely singular) ΚΠ 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 497/2 I shall gyue my law in their bowele. ?a1562 G. Cavendish Life Wolsey (1959) 72 I do bothe lake wytt in my grosse old hed & Cunnyng in my bowelles. 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie vi. 33 God will not haue vs to fall..to pulling out of his bowels as they doe which will needes bee searching out of measure. 1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xv. 4 But he that shall come foorth out of thy owne bowels . View more context for this quotation 3. a. transferred. (Considered as the seat of the tender and sympathetic emotions, hence): Pity, compassion, feeling, ‘heart’. Chiefly plural, and now somewhat archaic. Cf. heart n., int., and adv., breast n. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > compassion > [noun] rutha1200 ruenessa1225 ruefulnessc1225 birewnessa1250 pityc1300 ruea1325 compassionc1340 midtholing1340 miserationa1382 rueinga1382 bowel1382 mildc1390 tendresse1390 ruefulhead?a1400 ruthnessa1400 tendernessa1400 compunction1430 bowels of compassion1526 remorse1538 commiseration1582 kindheartedness1583 commorse1595 earning1603 tender-heartedness1607 compassionateness1614 visceraa1651 ruthfulness1674 karuna1850 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > [noun] > progeny or offspring bairn-teamc885 childeOE tudderc897 seedOE teamOE wastum971 offspringOE i-cundeOE fostera1175 i-streonc1175 strainc1175 brooda1300 begetc1300 barm-teamc1315 issuea1325 progenyc1330 fruit of the loinsa1340 bowel1382 young onec1384 suita1387 engendrurea1400 fruitinga1400 geta1400 birth?a1425 porturec1425 progenityc1450 bodyfauntc1460 generation1477 fryc1480 enfantement1483 infantment1483 blood issue1535 propagation1536 offspring1548 race1549 family?1552 increase1552 breed1574 begetting1611 sperm1641 bed1832 fruitage1850 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > belly or abdomen > [noun] boukc1000 stomachc1400 abdomen?1541 venter1706 bowel1708 bingy1859 Ned Kelly1945 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Phil. i. 8 Hou I coueite ȝou alle in the bowelis of Jhesu Crist. c1440 Gesta Romanorum 24 Whenne she sawe his blody serke, all her bowelis weere troubelyd more than tunge may telle. 1611 Bible (King James) Phil. ii. 1 If any bowels and mercies. View more context for this quotation 1651 Severall Proc. Parl. No. 110. 1695 Want of bowels in preaching towards them who are in hazard to perish. 1655 T. Fuller Hist. Waltham-Abby 18 in Church-hist. Brit. Bloudy Bonner..full (as one said) of guts and empty of bowels. 1685 J. Crowne Sir Courtly Nice i. 5 The Family is a sad Family, and I tarry out of pure Bowels. 1708 London Gaz. No. 4427/2 To shew their Bowels for their Country. 1798 Anti-Jacobin 14 May 214/2 'Twould have moved a Christian's bowels To hear the doubts he stated. 1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram I. i. ii. 31 I am a man what can feel for my neighbours. I have bowels—yes, I have bowels. 1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xiii. i. 402 Had idle readers any bowels for him; which they have not. b. In various archaic phrases as: bowels of compassion, bowels mercies, bowels pity, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > compassion > [noun] rutha1200 ruenessa1225 ruefulnessc1225 birewnessa1250 pityc1300 ruea1325 compassionc1340 midtholing1340 miserationa1382 rueinga1382 bowel1382 mildc1390 tendresse1390 ruefulhead?a1400 ruthnessa1400 tendernessa1400 compunction1430 bowels of compassion1526 remorse1538 commiseration1582 kindheartedness1583 commorse1595 earning1603 tender-heartedness1607 compassionateness1614 visceraa1651 ruthfulness1674 karuna1850 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. KKvi^v Close nat your bowelles of charite fro them. 1611 Bible (King James) Coloss. iii. 12 Put on therefore..bowels of mercies. View more context for this quotation 1642 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici ii. §2 Upon the bare suggestion and bowels of pity. 1794 W. Godwin Caleb Williams III. xi. 194 The law has neither eyes, nor ears, nor bowels of humanity. 1873 J. Morley Rousseau II. 218 note It has none of the yearnings of the bowels of tenderness. 4. The interior of anything; heart, centre. Cf. belly n. 9. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being internal > [noun] > that which is within > interior part(s) inwardness1388 entrail?c1400 entrail1434 bowel1548 pluck1611 viscera1709 embowelment1821 internals1899 innards1903 1548 Duke of Somerset Epist. Inhabitauntes Scotl. 243 Be we not in y^e bowels now of the realme? 1584 G. Whetstone Mirour for Magestrates f. 22 Dicyng Houses..within the Bowelles of the famous Citie of London. 1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Hay any Worke for Cooper A iij Thou wilt enter into the bowels of the cause in hand. a1593 H. Smith Wks. (1867) II. 265 Three days and three nights in the bowels of the earth. 1696 W. Whiston New Theory of Earth ii. 78 All Volcano's, or subterraneous Fires, are in the Bowels of some Mountain. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. 364 That monster in true policy..a body of men, residing in the bowels of a state, and yet independent of it's laws. c1860 M. Faraday Var. Forces Nature vi. 164 Brought together in the bowels of the earth. †5. Offspring, children. Obsolete. [Compare Latin viscera.] ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [noun] > offspring seedOE offspringOE begottena1325 birtha1325 issuea1325 burgeoninga1340 fruit of the loinsa1340 young onec1384 increasement1389 geta1400 gendera1425 procreation1461 progeniturec1487 engendera1500 propagation1536 feture1537 increase1552 breed1574 spawn1590 bowela1593 teeming1599 pullulation1641 prolifications1646 educt1677 produce1823 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > descendant > [noun] > collectively bairn-teamc885 kinc950 seedOE teamOE offspringOE kindOE childrenc1175 lineage1303 generationa1325 issuea1325 successiona1340 kindredc1350 progenya1382 posterityc1410 sequelc1440 ligneea1450 posterior1509 genealogy1513 propagation1536 racea1547 postery1548 after-spring1583 bowela1593 afterworld1594 loin1608 descendance1617 succession1618 proles1640 descent1667 ramage1936 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Philemon 12 Receave him, that is to saye myne awne bowels. 1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 343 Sum put to it wormes or bowels of the earth.] a1593 H. Smith Serm. (1871) I. 289 We should not spare our own bowels. a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iii. i. 29 Thine owne bowels which do call thee, sire [printed fire] . View more context for this quotation a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) i. 7 Men..bowelless unto others, and merciless unto their own bowels. Compounds C1. a. bowel-complaint n. ΚΠ 1831 J. M. Peck Guide for Emigrants ii. 84 The bowel complaint is more commonly fatal. 1850 N. Kingsley Diary 156 Indisposed by a bowel complaint. b. bowel-like adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > intestines > [adjective] intestinal1599 tripal1709 enteric1764 bowel-like1839 intestiniform1859 intestino-vesical1867 enteral1905 1839–47 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. III. 549/1 The stomach [of Iulus] is long and bowel-like. bowel-racking adj. C2. bowel-deep adj. up to or as high as the middle. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > vertical extent > extension downwards or depth > [adjective] > of specific depth > in something to specific depth knee-deepc1400 breast-deep1594 lip-deep1780 bowel-deep1828 bone deep1900 1828 W. Scott Rev. Davy's Salmonia (1849) 260 Bowel-deep in the stream. bowel-galled adj. ? applied to a horse whose belly is fretted with the girth. † bowel-gazer n. Obsolete one who inspects the entrails of sacrificed animals for religious purposes, a haruspex. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > divination by entrails, haruspicy > [noun] > one who practises haruspex1584 bowel-gazer1587 bowel-prier1600 paunch-porer1656 extispex1727 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxii. 383 Seneca sayth..that the Bowelgazers were inuented for nothing els but to holde the people in awe. bowel-gazing n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > divination by entrails, haruspicy > [noun] haruspicy1569 bowel-gazing1587 ventriloquy1623 paunch-poring1656 extispicy1681 extispicine1693 haruspiciny1693 enteroscopy1726 haruspication1871 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxxii. 606 Where be your Oracles, your Bowelgazings and your Sacrifices? bowel-hive n. (also bowel-hive grass) a herbalists' name for Alchemilla arvensis or Parsley-piert (Britten and Holland). ΚΠ 1878 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names 60 Bowel-hive, or Bowel-hive Grass, Alchemilla arvensis. bowel-hives n. Scottish a popular name for infantile enteritis and similar affections. ΚΠ 1715 A. Pennecuik Geogr., Hist. Descr. Tweeddale 7 The Rickets in Children, which they call the Bowel-hyve. 1863 Rept. Registrar Gen. Scot. ‘Bowel-hives’ (or ‘bull-hives’), the vernacular name under which is included enteritis, convulsions, diarrhœa, dysentery, and teething. bowel-prier n. Obsolete ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > divination by entrails, haruspicy > [noun] > one who practises haruspex1584 bowel-gazer1587 bowel-prier1600 paunch-porer1656 extispex1727 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xlii. xxx. 1132 The Bowell-priers [L. aruspices]..declared, That..they should make speed. bowel-prying adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > divination by entrails, haruspicy > [adjective] haruspicine1591 bowel-prying1600 extispicious1646 haruspical1652 haruspicate1652 haruspicinal1652 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. viii. 287 The bowell-prying Soothsaier. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2022). boweln.² Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: bole n.³ Etymology: Variant of bole n.³ rare. A recess; = bole n.³ ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > other elements > [noun] > bole bolea1600 bowel1835 1835 H. Miller Scenes & Legends N. Scotl. viii. 127 Little square recesses, termed bowels. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2020). bowelv. /ˈbaʊɪl/ Forms: Also Middle English bouwel(en, Middle English bowaylyn, bowellyn, 1600s bowell. Etymology: < bowel n.¹ Compare Old French boeler. 1. transitive. To take out the bowels of, disembowel. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > execute [verb (transitive)] > disembowel bowel1330 drawc1330 embowel1521 the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > maim or mutilate [verb (transitive)] > disembowel bowel1330 disbowelc1440 debowel1487 unpauncha1500 garbage1542 unbowel1552 disentrail1596 untripe1611 disembowel1613 exenterate1613 hulk1622 eviscerate1623 eventerate1656 garble1661 viscerate1727 degut1933 1330 R. Mannyng Chron. 329 Fro þe galweis quik þei lete him doun, & bouweld him alle hote. 1440 J. Shirley Cron. Dethe James Stewarde (1818) 27 Many of the other traitours were boweld all qwik. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 46 Bowaylyn, eviscero. 1573 G. Gascoigne & F. Kinwelmersh Iocasta iii. i, in G. Gascoigne Hundreth Sundrie Flowres sig. Qii^v In thy sacred name I bowell here This sacrifice. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ix. 169 Five Seminaries..were hanged, bowelled, and quartered for treason. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Sprain Take a..Whelp, flea and bowel him. 1861 W. H. Dixon Personal Hist. Ld. Bacon x. §6 Coke, bent on hanging and bowelling all these miserable wretches. †2. figurative. To stir the bowels of, move or arouse the compassion of. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > compassion > quality of exciting pity > affect with pity [verb (transitive)] rueOE movea1325 enpitec1400 relent1509 pity1515 yearn1603 melt1605 bowel1645 tenderize1733 1645 S. Rutherford Tryal & Trivmph of Faith (1845) 270 He was bowelled in heart, his bowels were moved with compassion. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.¹c1300n.²1835v.1330
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