n. a large towel used to dry oneself after a bath. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. bouel, bouele, OF. boel, boele, F. boyau, fr. L. botellus a small sausage, in LL. also intestine, dim. of L. botulus sausage. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. One of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially of man; a gut; -- generally used in the plural. [ 1913 Webster ]

He burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out. Acts i. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. Hence, figuratively: The interior part of anything; as, the bowels of the earth. [ 1913 Webster ]

His soldiers . . . cried out amain,
And rushed into the bowels of the battle. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. pl. The seat of pity or kindness. Hence: Tenderness; compassion. “Thou thing of no bowels.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bloody Bonner, that corpulent tyrant, full (as one said) of guts, and empty of bowels. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. pl. Offspring. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Boweled or Bowelled p. pr. & vb. n. Boweling or Bowelling. ] To take out the bowels of; to eviscerate; to disembowel. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Written also bowelled. ] Having bowels; hollow. “The boweled cavern.” Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without pity. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Bowel, v. t. ] To disembowel. [ R. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Embowel. ] 1. To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Soon after their death, they are disemboweled. Cook. [ 1913 Webster ]

Roaring floods and cataracts that sweep
From disemboweled earth the virgin gold. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider. [ R. ] “Her disemboweled web.” J. Philips. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of disemboweling, or state of being disemboweled; evisceration. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. G. döbel peg, F. douelle state of a cask, surface of an arch, douille socket, little pipe, cartridge. ] (Mech.) 1. A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A piece of wood driven into a wall, so that other pieces may be nailed to it. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dowel joint, a joint secured by a dowel or dowels. --
Dowel pin, a dowel. See Dowel, n., 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Doweled it>or Dowelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Doweling or Dowelling. ] To fasten together by dowels; to furnish with dowels; as, a cooper dowels pieces for the head of a cask. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. fastening by dowels. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Emboweled r Embowelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Emboweling or Embowelling. ] 1. To disembowel. [ 1913 Webster ]

The barbarous practice of emboweling. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

The boar . . . makes his trough
In your emboweled bosoms. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Disembowel is the preferable word in this sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To imbed; to hide in the inward parts; to bury. [ 1913 Webster ]

Or deep emboweled in the earth entire. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who takes out the bowels. [ Written also emboweller. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Disembowelment. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A tool used by coopers for smoothing and chamfering rheir work, especially the inside of casks. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To smooth; to plane; as, to howel a cask. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The upper stage of a porcelian furnace. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Embowel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. noyau, prop., a kernel. See Noyau, Newel a post. ] (Founding) (a) The core, or the inner part, of a mold for casting a large hollow object. (b) The bottom part of a mold or of a flask, in distinction from the cope; the drag. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Noel. ] [ Written also noel. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Christmas; also, a shout of joy at Christmas for the birth of the Savior. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mus.) A kind of hymn, or canticle, of mediaeval origin, sung in honor of the Nativity of our Lord; a Christmas carol. Grove. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OF. oel, owel, iwel, ivel, F. égal, fr. L. aequalis. ] (Law) Equal. [ Obs. ] Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. oelté, ivelté. ] (Law) Equality; -- sometimes written ovelty and ovealty. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. rīp. harvest + a word of uncertain etymology. ] (Feud. Law) A gratuity given to tenants after they had reaped their lord's corn. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. roele, rouele, properly, a little wheel, F. rouelle collop, slice, LL. rotella a little wheel, dim. of L. rota a wheel. See Roll, and cf. Rota. ] 1. The little wheel of a spur, with sharp points. [ 1913 Webster ]

With sounding whip, and rowels dyed in blood. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A little flat ring or wheel on horses' bits. [ 1913 Webster ]

The iron rowels into frothy foam he bit. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Far.) A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of horses, answering to a seton in human surgery. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Roweled r Rowelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Roweling or Rowelling. ] (Far.) To insert a rowel, or roll of hair or silk, into (as the flesh of a horse). Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

See rewel bone. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Phon.) (a) A sound intermediate between a vowel and a consonant, or partaking of the nature of both, as in the English w and y. (b) The sign or letter representing such a sound. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ See Thole. ] (Naut.) (a) A thole pin. (b) A rowlock. [ 1913 Webster ]

I would sit impatiently thinking with what an unusual amount of noise the oars worked in the thowels. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. towaille, towail, F. touaille, LL. toacula, of Teutonic origin; cf. OHG. dwahila, swahilla, G. zwehle, fr. OHG. dwahan to wash; akin to D. dwaal a towel, AS. þweán to wash, OS. thwahan, Icel. þvā, Sw. två, Dan. toe, Goth. þwahan. Cf. Doily. ] A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, as the person after a bath. [ 1913 Webster ]

Towel gourd (Bot.), the fruit of the cucurbitaceous plant Luffa Aegyptiaca; also, the plant itself. The fruit is very fibrous, and, when separated from its rind and seeds, is used as a sponge or towel. Called also Egyptian bath sponge, and dishcloth. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To beat with a stick. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Cloth for towels, especially such as is woven in long pieces to be cut at will, as distinguished from that woven in towel lengths with borders, etc. [ Written also towelling. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. truel, OF. truele, F. truelle, LL. truella, L. trulla, dim. of trua a ladle; probably akin to Gr. &unr_; a stirrer, ladle, G. quirl a stirrer, MHG. twirel, OHG. dwiril, Icel. þvara, AS. þwiril. Cf. Twirl. ] 1. A mason's tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A gardener's tool, somewhat like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring the earth, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Founding) A tool used for smoothing a mold. [ 1913 Webster ]

Trowel bayonet. See Spade bayonet, under Spade. --
Fish trowel. See Fish slice, under Fish. [ 1913 Webster ]

Formed with a trowel; smoothed with a trowel; as, troweled stucco, that is, stucco laid on and ready for the reception of paint. [ Written also trowelled. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Trowelfuls As much as a trowel will hold; enough to fill a trowel. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Unboweled r Unbowelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Unboweling or Unbowelling. ] [ 1st pref. un- + bowel. ] To deprive of the entrails; to disembowel. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having no vowel sounds or signs. [ Written also unvowelled. ] Skinner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. voyelle, or an OF. form without y, L. vocalis (sc. littera), from vocalis sounding, from vox, vocis, a voice, sound. See Vocal. ] (Phon.) A vocal, or sometimes a whispered, sound modified by resonance in the oral passage, the peculiar resonance in each case giving to each several vowel its distinctive character or quality as a sound of speech; -- distinguished from a consonant in that the latter, whether made with or without vocality, derives its character in every case from some kind of obstructive action by the mouth organs. Also, a letter or character which represents such a sound. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 5, 146-149. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the English language, the written vowels are a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes w and y. The spoken vowels are much more numerous. [ 1913 Webster ]

Close vowel. See under Close, a. --
Vowel point. See under Point, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a vowel; vocal. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Furnished with vowels. [ Written also vowelled. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of the nature of a vowel. [ R. ] “The power [ of w ] is always vowelish.” B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The use of vowels. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To give the quality, sound, or office of a vowel to. [ 1913 Webster ]