Bowel
- n. Offspring.
- n. One of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially of man; a gut; — generally used in the plural.
- n. Hence, figuratively: The interior part of anything; as, the bowels of the earth.
- n. The seat of pity or kindness. Hence: Tenderness; compassion.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.