bowel

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The intestine. Often used in the plural.
2. n. A part or division of the intestine: the large bowel.
3. n. The interior of something: in the bowels of the ship.
4. n. Archaic The seat of pity or the gentler emotions.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. One of the intestines of an animal; a division of the alimentary canal below the stomach; a gut, especially of man: chiefly used in the plural to denote the intestines collectively.
2. n. One of the viscera; any internal organ of the body, as the stomach, liver, brain, etc.
3. n. plural The interior part of anything.
4. n. plural The inner parts as the seat of pity or kindness; hence, tenderness; compassion.
5. n. plural Offspring; children.
6. To take out the bowels of; eviscerate; penetrate the bowels of; disembowel.

Wiktionary

1. n. the intestines or gut
2. n. a part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine.
3. n. the (deep) interior of something generally viewed as a container.
4. n. the seat of pity or the gentler emotions; pity or mercy (synechdoche)
5. v. To disembowel.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. One of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially of man; a gut; -- generally used in the plural.
2. n. Hence, figuratively: The interior part of anything.
3. n. The seat of pity or kindness. Hence: Tenderness; compassion.
4. n. Offspring.
5. v. To take out the bowels of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus