Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for EM-BOW'EL
EM-BOW'EL, v.t. [en, in, and bowel.]
- To take out the entrails of an animal body; to eviscerate. Shak.
- To take out the internal parts. Fossils and minerals that the emboweled earth / Displays. Philips.
- To sink or inclose in another substance. Spenser.
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