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adjective

Inner adj.

Further in; interior; internal; not outward; as, an inner chamber.

Of or pertaining to the spirit or its phenomena. "This attracts the soul, Governs the inner man, the nobler part."

Not obvious or easily discovered; obscure.

Inner house (Scot.), the first and second divisions of the court of Session at Edinburgh; also, the place of their sittings.

Inner jib (Naut.), a fore-and-aft sail set on a stay running from the fore-topmast head to the jib boom.

Inner plate (Arch.), the wall plate which lies nearest to the center of the roof, in a double-plated roof.

Inner post (Naut.), a piece brought on at the fore side of the main post, to support the transoms.

Inner square (Carp.), the angle formed by the inner edges of a carpenter's square.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... the men again mounted, and, with the Indian walking in front, swung away to the right, finding themselves in a few minutes upon a rough but wide road traversing the edge of a ravine, the inner side of the path being bounded by a high cliff which leaned outward until its top edge actually overhung the chasm, so that it was impossible for any one at the top to molest a force passing along the road by hurling rocks down upon it. As the Indian ...

— Under the Chilian Flag - A Tale of War between Chili and Peru • Harry Collingwood

... body, except the lungs. Another name for it is the descending thoracic aorta, and that is where grandfather's trouble is. If you knew something about automobile tires I would explain it by saying that he had a blow-out, but it's something like this. The pipe has an outer surface and an inner lining. At one time or another something happened to injure and weaken the former—disease does it sometimes—perhaps it may have been a severe strain or crushing blow ...

— 'Smiles' - A Rose of the Cumberlands • Eliot H. Robinson

... oblige you,' said a fat man, dirtier and greasier than the first, emerging from an inner den; 'they're gone ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XII. September, 1863, No. LXXI. - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various

... determination. Philip II. and Mayenne still reigned in his ideas, and he dismissed the Duke of Nevers on the 13th of January, 1594, declaring once more that he refused to the Navarrese absolution at the inner bar of conscience, absolution at the outer bar, and ...

— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume V. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot

... Sackett's Harbor with sixteen vessels, having on board seventeen hundred troops, besides the crews. It will be remembered that the capital of Ontario had been moved from Niagara (Newark) to York (Toronto) on the north side of Lake Ontario, then a thriving village of one thousand souls on the inner shore of Humber Bay. On the sand reef known as the Island, in front of the harbor, had been constructed a battery with cannon. The main village lay east of the present city hall. Westward less than a mile was Government ...

— Canada: the Empire of the North - Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom • Agnes C. Laut

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