bowel

1. (chiefly medicine) A part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine.

2. (in the plural) The entrails or intestines; the internal organs of the stomach.Examples: "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."in-plural

3. (in the plural, figuratively) The (deep) interior of something.Examples: "The treasures were stored in the bowels of the ship."; "His soldiers […] cried out amain, / And rushed into the bowels of the battle."figurativelyin-plural

4. (in the plural, archaic) The seat of pity or the gentler emotions; pity or mercy.Examples: "Thou thing of no bowels, thou!"; "Bloody Bonner, that corpulent tyrant, full (as one said) of guts, and empty of bowels."archaicin-plural

5. (obsolete, in the plural) offspringExamples: "Friend hast thou none, / For thine own bowels, which do call thee sire,"in-pluralobsolete