bowel
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- //ˈbaʊ.əl//
- //baʊl//
A part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine.
sostantivo
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A part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine.
- 2
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.
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figuratoThe (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.
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arcaicoThe 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.
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obsoletooffspring
Friend hast thou none, / For thine own bowels, which do call thee sire,
Etimologia
Borrowed from Middle French bouel, from Old French boïel, from Latin botellus, diminutive of botulus (“sausage”). Doublet of boyau.
verbo
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arcaicoTo disembowel.
Their bodies are first bowelled, then dried upon hurdles till they be very dry [...].
Forme
- plurale
- bowels
- passato
- boweled, bowelled
- participio passato
- boweled, bowelled
- participio presente
- boweling, bowelling
- 3ª persona singolare
- bowels
bowel · A part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine.
bowels · The deepest or innermost part.bowie · A Bowie knife.Bowie · A surname.