bowel

noun

1. A part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine.
2. (in-plural)The entrails or intestines; the internal organs of the stomach.

   “And when he was hanged, brast asondre in the myddes, and all his bowels gusshed out.”

   “Leaue words & let them feele your lances pointes, UUhich glided through the bowels of the Greekes.”

3. (figuratively, in-plural)The (deep) interior of something.

   “The treasures were stored in the bowels of the ship.”

   “His soldiers […] cried out amain, / And rushed into the bowels of the battle.”

4. (archaic, in-plural)The seat of pity or the gentler emotions; pity or mercy.

   “Thou thing of no bowels, thou!”

   “Bloody Bonner, that corpulent tyrant, full (as one said) of guts, and empty of bowels.”

5. (in-plural, obsolete)offspring

   “Friend hast thou none, / For thine own bowels, which do call thee sire,”

verb

1. (archaic)To disembowel.

   “Their bodies are first bowelled, then dried upon hurdles till they be very dry [...].”