<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Anatomy. Usually bowels.</li><li>the intestine.</li><li>a part of the intestine.</li><li>bowels, the inward or interior parts: the bowels of the earth.</li><li>Archaic. feelings of pity or compassion.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object), bow·eled, bow·el·ing or (especially British) bow·elled, bow·el·ling.</li><li>to disembowel.</li></ul>