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Webster 1913 Edition
Embowel
Em-bow′el
,Verb.
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
In your
emboweled
bosoms. Shakespeare
☞ 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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Embowel
EMBOW'EL
,Verb.
T.
1.
To take out the internal parts.Fossils and minerals that the emboweled earth
Displays.
2.
To sink or inclose in another substance.