Also 4 bouwel(en, 5 bowaylyn, bowellyn, 7 bowell. [f. BOWEL sb.1 Cf. OF. boeler.]
1. trans. To take out the bowels of, disembowel.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron., 329. Fro þe galweis quik þei lete him doun, & bouweld him alle hote.
1440. J. Shirley, Dethe K. James (1818), 27. Many of the other traitours were boweld all qwik.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 46. Bowaylyn, eviscero.
1566. Gascoigne, Jocasta, Wks. (1587), 95. In thy sacred name I bowel here This sacrifice.
1655. Fuller, Ch. Hist., IX. 169. Five Seminaries were hanged, bowelled, and quartered for treason.
1725. Bradley, Fam. Dict., II. s.v. Sprain, Take a Whelp, flea and bowel him.
1861. Dixon, Bacon, x. § 6. Coke, bent on hanging and bowelling all these miserable wretches.
† 2. fig. To stir the bowels of, move or arouse the compassion of. Obs. rare.
1645. Rutherford, Tryal & Tri. Faith (1845), 270. He was bowelled in heart, his bowels were moved with compassion.