intestine /ɪnˈtɛs.tɪn/adjective 4noun 2forms 1 adjective4 •(no longer used) Domestic; taking place within a given country or region.Hoping here to end / Intestine war in heaven, the arch foe subdued. — 1667 •(no longer used) Internal. •(no longer used, rare) Depending upon the internal constitution of a body or entity; subjective.When you have alleaged all the reasons you can, and beleeved all to disavow and reject her, she produceth, contrarie to your discourses, so intestine inclination, that you have small hold against her. — 1603 •(no longer used, rare) Shut up; enclosed.No thunders shook with deep intestine sound The blooming groves that girdled her around. — 1782 noun2 •The alimentary canal of an animal through which food passes after having passed all stomachs. •One of certain subdivisions of this part of the alimentary canal, such as the small or large intestine in human beings. formsintestines
