entrails
the internal parts of the trunk of an animal body.
the intestines.
the internal parts of anything: the entrails of a machine.
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Legal minds look to the text to read the thoughts of the Framers as a high priest would study entrails at the Forum.
The Tea Party Isn’t a Political Movement, It’s a Religious One | Jack Schwartz | July 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt launches with a family hacked to death by one of its members, the mother's abdomen reduced to “a bloody bowl of entrails.”
By fleeing his palace, Mubarak responded to the instinct not to have his entrails on display in the public square.
They gleefully bathe in fresh entrails; they rip the limbs off human bodies like a gourmand digging into a fresh lobster.
I dig out strings of beads so impertinently large that they could never have been spat from the mere entrails of an oyster.
My entrails were troubled in seeking her: therefore shall I possess a good possession.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousThere were augurs and haruspices to discover the will of the gods, according to entrails and the flight of birds.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume I | John LordIt consists of the fattest parts of the entrails of the pig, broiled in an oven.
He instructs the Mother Serpent to slay a wild ox and conceal herself in its entrails.
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria | Donald A. MackenzieThe water-line is strewn with cast-off salmon heads and entrails.
Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska | Charles Warren Stoddard
British Dictionary definitions for entrails
/ (ˈɛntreɪlz) /
the internal organs of a person or animal; intestines; guts
the innermost parts of anything
Origin of entrails
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