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Not lying within one's competency, capacity, or authorized power; not permissible.

Not capable of being contained within limits. An infinite and incomprehensible substance. Hooker.

se. Milton. Sense and perception must necessarily proceed from some incorporeal substance within us. Bentley.

To create within. [R.]

A crust or hard coating of anything upon or within a body, as a deposit of lime, sediment, etc., from water on the inner surface of a steam boiler.

the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, (eggs) to develop the life within, by any process. Ray.

The act of beginning a line or series of lines at a little distance within the flush line of the column or page, as in the common way of beginning the first line of a paragraph.

Done or being within doors; within a house or institution; domestic; as, indoor work.

Within the house; -- usually separated, in doors.

battery), passing through the inner coil, is made, broken, or varied. The inner coil has within it a core of soft iron, and is connected at its terminals with a condenser; -- called also inductorium, and Ruhmkorff's coil. -- Induction pipe, port, or valve, a pipe, passageway, or valve, for leading or admitting a flui…

To dwell in; to abide within; to remain in possession. The Holy Ghost became a dove, not as a symbol, but as a constantly indwelt form. Milman.

Residence within, as in the heart. The personal indwelling of the Spirit in believers. South.

A small escutcheon borne within a shield.

To exist within; to dwell within. [Obs.] Substances inexisting within the divine mind. A. Tucker.

That which exists within; a constituent. A. Tucker.

The privilege granted to lords of certain manors to judge thieves taken within the seigniory of such lords. Cowell.

s, to infix a sting, spear, or dart. Shak. The fatal dart a ready passage found, And deep within her heart infixed the wound. Dryden.

Within the territory of a state. Story.

Generated within; inborn; innate; as, ingenerate powers of body. W. Wotton. Those virtues were rather feigned and affected . . . than true qualities ingenerate in his judgment. Bacon.

Within the land; more or less remote from the ocean or from open water; interior; as, an inland town. "This wide inland sea." Spenser. From inland regions to the distant main. Cowper.