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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