Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Bowel \Bow"el\, n. [OE. bouel, bouele, OF. boel, boele, F.
   boyau, fr. L. botellus a small sausage, in LL. also
   intestine, dim. of L. botulus sausage.]
   1. One of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially
      of man; a gut; -- generally used in the plural.

            He burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels
            gushed out.                           --Acts i. 18.

   2. pl. Hence, figuratively: The interior part of anything;
      as, the bowels of the earth.

            His soldiers . . . cried out amain, And rushed into
            the bowels of the battle.             --Shak.

   3. pl. The seat of pity or kindness. Hence: Tenderness;
      compassion. ``Thou thing of no bowels.'' --Shak.

            Bloody Bonner, that corpulent tyrant, full (as one
            said) of guts, and empty of bowels.   --Fuller.

   4. pl. Offspring. [Obs.] --Shak.

Bowel \Bow"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Boweled} or {Bowelled}; p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Boweling} or {Bowelling}.]
   To take out the bowels of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.

Source : WordNet®

bowel
     n : the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the
         anus [syn: {intestine}, {gut}]