Bowels

bow′elz, n.pl. the interior parts of the body, the entrails, the intestines: the interior part of anything: ( fig. ) the heart, pity, tenderne (the emotions being supposed to be seated in the bowels— B. and Shak. ).— v.t. Bow′el , to take out the bowels. [O. Fr. boel —L. botellus , a sausage, also an intestine.]