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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.

Act of thinning a wood to let in light. [Obs.] Evelyn.

al reservoirs in hills or mountains by passages having the form of a siphon, the water beginning to flow when it has accumulated so as to fill the upper part of the siphon, and ceasing when, by running through it, it has fallen below the orifice of the upper part of the siphon in the reservoir.

Pertaining to the inner being or the heart; spiritual. With our Savior, internal purity is everything. Paley.

etry is destroyed by local causes, as when leaflets are interposed among the leaves in a pinnate leaf.

With breaks or interruptions; discontinuously. Interruptedly pinnate (Bot.), pinnate with small leaflets intermixed with large ones. Gray.

Innermost; inward; internal; deep-seated; hearty. "I knew from intimate impulse." Milton.

A transparent, extensible membrane of extreme tenuity, which forms the innermost coating of grains of pollen.

The interior curve of an arch; esp., the inner or lower curved face of the whole body of voussoirs taken together. See Extrados.

The act of twinning, or the state of being intwined.

See Innuendo.

That with which anyone is invested; a vestment. Whose white investments figure innocence. Shak.

; solicitation; the requesting of a person's company; as, an invitation to a party, to a dinner, or to visit a friend.

; esp., to ask to an entertainment or visit; to request the company of; as, to invite to dinner, or a wedding, or an excursion. So many guests invite as here are writ. Shak. I invite his Grace of Castle Rackrent to reflect on this. Carlyle.

An inner wall; specifically (Metal.), the inner wall, or lining, of a blast furnace.

Being or placed within; inner; interior; -- opposed to outward. Milton.

In the inner parts; internally. Let Benedick, like covered fire, Consume away in sighs, waste inwardly. Shak.

Not reprehensible; blameless; innocent. -- Ir*rep`re*hen"si*ble*ness, n. -- Ir*rep`re*hen"si*bly, adv.

The quality or state of being irreproachable; integrity; innocence.

Nor responsible; not liable or able to answer fro consequences; innocent.