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To lay within; hence, to insert, as pieces of pearl, iviry, choice woods, or the like, in a groundwork of some other material; to form an ornamental surface; to diversify or adorn with insertions. Look,how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold. Shak. But these things are . . . borrowed by the…

Internally; within; in the heart. "Whereat he inly raged." Milton.

To bring within meshes, as of a net; to enmesh.

Deepest within; farthest from the surface or external part; innermost. And pierce the inmost center of the earth. Shak. The silent, slow, consuming fires, Which on my inmost vitals prey. Addison.

More within. [Obs.] Baret.

Farthest inward; most remote from the outward part; inmost; deepest within. Prov. xviii. 8.

To draw within so as to meet yet not cut the boundaries.

To set within something; to put or thrust in; to introduce; to cause to enter, or be included, or contained; as, to insert a scion in a stock; to insert a letter, word, or passage in a composition; to insert an advertisement in a newspaper. These words were very weakly inserted where they will be so liable to misconstr…

Within the sides of; in the interior; contained within; as, inside a house, book, bottle, etc.

y way of example or illustration. -- Instance Court (Law), the Court of Admiralty acting within its ordinary jurisdiction, as distinguished from its action as a prize court.

ledge or information to; to enlighten; to teach; to discipline. Schoolmasters will I keep within my house, Fit to instruct her youth. Shak.

Situated within or between the axils of leaves.

Within cartilage; endochondral; as, intercartilaginous ossification.

Being within any limits, inclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner; -- opposed to exterior, or superficial; as, the interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow ball.

To unite, as by lacing together; to insert or interpose one thing within another; to intertwine; to interweave. Severed into stripes That interlaced each other. Cowper. The epic way is every where interlaced with dialogue. Dryden. Interlacing arches (Arch.), arches, usually circular, so constructed that their archivolt…

Within or beneath a membrane; as, intermembranous ossification.

Within the mesentery; as, the intermesenteric, or aortic, plexus.

Inward; interior; being within any limit or surface; inclosed; -- opposed to external; as, the internal parts of a body, or of the earth.

The state of being internal or within; interiority.

Inwardly; within the enveloping surface, or the boundary of a thing; within the body; beneath the surface.