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e, or substance; inside; internal; inner; -- opposed to exterior, or superficial; as, the interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow ball.

State of being interior.

Internally; inwardly.

Weakness of sight, without and opacity of the cornea, or of the interior of the eye; the first degree of amaurosis.

for protecting an angle of a wall. -- Angle brace, Angle tie (Carp.), a brace across an interior angle of a wooden frame, forming the hypothenuse and securing the two side pieces together. Knight. -- Angle iron (Mach.), a rolled bar or plate of iron having one or more angles, used for forming the corners, or connect…

A space viewed as the outer chamber or the entrance to an interior part. The mouth, the antechamber to the digestive canal. Todd & Bowman.

A genus of marine bivalves, having a pearly interior, allied to the pearl oyster; -- so called from a supposed resemblance of the typical species to a bird.

rim of a water wheel to prevent the water from running off the floats or paddies into the interior of the wheel. W. Nicholson.

The heavy interior portion of the earth, within the lithosphere.

A bickern; a bench anvil with a long beak, adapted to reach the interior surface of sheet metal ware; the horn of an anvil.

Within; in; in or into the interior; toward the inner apartment. [Scot.]

An interior acrow's-foot in the United States.

tropod of the genus Crepidula. The species are numerous. It is so named from its form and interior deck.

The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber.

Any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior; as, the bosom of the earth. "The bosom of the ocean." Addison.

Hence, figuratively: The interior part of anything; as, the bowels of the earth. His soldiers . . . cried out amain, And rushed into the bowels of the battle. Shak.

he heartwood of Cæsalpinia echinata, a leguminous tree; but other trees also yield it. An interior sort comes from Jamaica, the timber of C. Braziliensis and C. crista. This is often distinguished as Braziletto , but the better kind is also frequently so named.

The interior slope of a fortification, against which the garnison lean in firing.

The piece in the interior of a gun lock, which holds in place the timbler, sear, etc.

of air forced into the caisson keeps the water out. Men and materials are admitted to the interior through an air lock. See Lock.