Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Embowel"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Embowel \Em*bow"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Emboweled}or
{Embowelled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Emboweling} or {Embowelling}.]
1. To disembowel.

The barbarous practice of emboweling. --Hallam.

The boar . . . makes his trough In your emboweled
bosoms. --Shak.

Note: Disembowel is the preferable word in this sense.

2. To imbed; to hide in the inward parts; to bury.

Or deep emboweled in the earth entire. --Spenser.

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