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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: inner adj 1: located inward; "Beethoven's manuscript looks like a bloody record of a tremendous inner battle"- Leonard Bernstein; "she thinks she has no soul, no interior life, but the truth is that she has no access to it"- David Denby; "an internal sense of rightousness"- A.R.Gurney,Jr. [syn: {interior}, {internal}] 2: located or occurring within or closer to a center; "an inner room" [syn: {inner(a)}] [ant: {outer(a)}] 3: innermost or essential; "the inner logic of Cubism"; "the internal contradictions of the theory"; "the intimate structure of matter" [syn: {internal}, {intimate}] 4: confined to an exclusive or group "privy to inner knowledge"; "inside information"; privileged information" [syn: {inside}, {privileged}] 5: exclusive to a center; especially a center of influence; "inner regions of the organization"; "inner circles of government" 6: (anatomy) inside or closer to the inside of the body; "the inner ear"
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