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One who lives in the interior of a country, or at a distance from the sea. Sir T. Browne.

Internal; interior; secret. Didst thou but know the inly touch of love. Shak.

Further in; interior; internal; not outward; as, an spirit or its phenomena. This attracts the soul, Governs the inner man,the nobler part. Milton.

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

A sight or view of the interior of anything; a deep inspection or view; introspection; -- frequently used with into. He had an insight into almost all the secrets of state. Jortin.

To put for safe keeping in the interior of a place or country; to confine to one locality; as, to intern troops which have fled for refuge to a neutral country.

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.

That which is within; the interior. [Poetic] Mrs. Browning.

State of being within; interiority. [R.] H. Brooke.

Confinement within narrow limits, -- as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country.

Expressing entrance, or a passing from the outside of a thing to its interior parts; -- following verbs expressing motion; as, come into the house; go into the church; one stream falls or runs into another; water enters into the fine vessels of plants.

A prefix signifying in, within, interior; as, intraocular, within the eyeball; intramarginal.

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

A view of the inside or interior; a looking inward; specifically, the act or process of self-examination, or inspection of one's own thoughts and feelings; the cognition which the mind has of its own acts and states; self-consciousness; reflection. I was forced to make an introspection into my own mind. Dryden.…

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

Toward the inside; toward the center or interior; as, to bend a thing inward.

or place full of intricate passageways which render it difficult to find the way from the interior to the entrance; as, the Egyptian and Cretan labyrinths.

An open structure of light material set upon a roof, to give light and air to the interior.

One of two oval bodies hanging from the interior walls of the body in the Acanthocephala.