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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Inner \In"ner\, a. [AS. innera, a compar. fr. inne within, fr. in in. See {In}.] 1. Further in; interior; internal; not outward; as, an spirit or its phenomena. This attracts the soul, Governs the inner man,the nobler part. --Milton. 3. 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. | |
