Defn: To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts considered offensive.
It is a grave defect in the splendid tale of Tom Jones . . . that a
Bowlderized version of it would be hardly intelligible as a tale.
F. Harrison.
— Bowd`ler*i*za"tion (#), n. —Bowd"ler*ism (#), n.
BOWEL
Bow"el, n. Etym: [OE. bouel, bouele, OF. boel, boele, F. boyau, fr.
L. botellus a small sausage, in LL. also intestine, dim. of L.
botulus sausage.]
1. One of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially of man; a gut; — generally used in the plural. He burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out. Acts i. 18.
2. pl.
Defn: Hence, figuratively: The interior part of anything; as, the
bowels of the earth.
His soldiers . . . cried out amain, And rushed into the bowels of the
battle. Shak.
3. pl.
Defn: The seat of pity or kindness. Hence: Tenderness; compassion.
"Thou thing of no bowels." Shak.
Bloody Bonner, that corpulent tyrant, full (as one said) of guts, and
empty of bowels. Fuller.
4. pl.