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Sharp-sighted as an eagle. "Inwardly eagle-eyed." Howell.

To imbed; to hide in the inward parts; to bury. Or deep emboweled in the earth entire. Spenser.

The transmission of a fluid or gas from without inward in the phenomena, or by the process, of osmose.

put force upon; to force; to constrain; to compel; as, to enforce obedience to commands. Inward joy enforced my heart to smile. Shak.

The inward part of a building; the interior. [Obs.] Chaucer.

as, the earth expires a damp vapor; plants expire odors. The expiring of cold out of the inward parts of the earth in winter. Bacon.

-- opposed to interior; as, the exterior part of a sphere. Sith nor the exterior nor the inward man Resemble that it was. Shak.

(M. E. Ch.), to sin; to withdraw from the faith. -- To fall home (Ship Carp.), to curve inward; -- said of the timbers or upper parts of a ship's side which are much within a perpendicular. -- To fall in. (a) To sink inwards; as, the roof fell in. (b) (Mil.) To take one's proper or assigned place in line; as, to fal…

To take internal cognizance of; to be conscious of; to have an inward persuasion of. For then, and not till then, he felt himself. Shak.

To cause to fester or rankle. For which I burnt in inward, swelt'ring hate, And fstered ranking malice in my breast. Marston.

To kindle; to inflame; to excite. And flamed with zeal of vengeance inwardly. Spenser.

To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly. His heart forebodes a mystery. Tennyson. Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Cæsar's death. Middleton. I have a so…

That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while it aims to keep fast the outward formality. Milton.

aking, or yielding. "Upon the first giving of the weather." Addison. Giving in, a falling inwards; a collapse. -- Giving out, anything uttered or asserted; an outgiving. His givings out were of an infinite distance From his true meant design. Shak.

Felt in one's own breast; inward; private. "Home-felt quiet. Pope.

A burstion inwards, as of a vessel from which the air has been exhausted; -- contrasted with explosion.

From without inward; toward the inside; as, the inboard stroke of a steam engine piston, the inward or return stroke.

Characterized by a current which flows inward; as, the incurrent orifice of lamellibranch Mollusca.

A state of being bent or curved; incurvation; a bending inwards. Sir T. Browne.

A draught of air or flow of water setting inward.