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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Inner

In′ner (ĭn′nẽr), a. [AS. innera, a compar. fr. inne within, fr. in in. See In.] 1. Further in; interior; internal; not outward; as, an inner chamber.

2. Of or pertaining to the 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.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty.