embowel to draw out the bowels, to eviscerate:
“if thou embowel me to-day,”
1 HENRY IV., v. 4. 111
[=embalm];
“the schools, embowell'd of their doctrine”
ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, i. 3.
232
(
“exhausted of their skill,”
STEEVENS)
;
“Embowell'd will I see thee by and by,”
1 HENRY IV., v. 4. 109
[=Embalmed];
“In your embowell'd bosoms,”
RICHARD III., v. 2. 10.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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