Definition of "bowel"

And when he was hanged, brast asondre in the myddes, and all his bowels gusshed out.

1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], Acts ]

Leaue words & let them feele your lances pointes,UUhich glided through the bowels of the Greekes.

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, Act III, scene iii

His soldiers […] cried out amain, / And rushed into the bowels of the battle.

1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene i], line 129

Thou thing of no bowels, thou!

c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene i], line 48

Bloody Bonner, that corpulent tyrant, full (as one said) of guts, and empty of bowels.

1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of Waltham Abbey

Friend hast thou none, / For thine own bowels, which do call thee sire,

c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene i], line 29

Their bodies are first bowelled, then dried upon hurdles till they be very dry [...].

1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, Kupperman, published 1988, page 149