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 ]

a. Deprived of, or removed from, a bower. [ Poetic ] Bryant. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To bend like a bow; to curve. “Embowed arches.” [ Obs. or R. ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

With gilded horns embowed like the moon. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

v. t. To cover with a bower; to shelter with trees. [ Written also imbower. ] [ Poetic ] Milton. -- v. i. To lodge or rest in a bower. [ Poetic ] “In their wide boughs embow'ring. ” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To form like a bowl; to give a globular shape to. [ Obs. ] Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having lofty arches. “The high-embowed roof.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]