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One of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially of man; a gut; -- generally used in the plural.

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  1. n. One of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially of man; a gut; -- generally used in the plural.
  2. n. Hence, figuratively: The interior part of anything; as, the bowels of the earth.
  3. n. The seat of pity or kindness. Hence: Tenderness; compassion.
  4. n. Offspring.
  5. v. t. To take out the bowels of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.
  6. n. the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus
  7. Hence, figuratively: The interior part of anything; as, thebowels of the earth.His soldiers . . . cried out amain, And rushed into the bowels of thebattle. Shak.
  8. n:100 n the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus