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Seated in the mind, heart, spirit, or soul. "Inward beauty." Shak.

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

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

Internal or true state; essential nature; as, the inwardness of conduct. Sense can not arrive to the inwardness Of things. Dr. H. More.

See Inward.

Back again. [Obs.]

Curvature inwards; hookedness. The aduncity of the beaks of hawks. Pope.

Curved inwards; hooked.

Bearing or conducting inwards to a part or organ; -- opposed to efferent; as, afferent vessels; afferent nerves, which convey sensations from the external organs to the brain.

One of the processes of the shell which project inwards and unite with one another, in the thorax of many Crustacea.

ng by friction, or by rubbing substances together; abrasion. Effected by attrition of the inward stomach. Arbuthnot.

Having legs that bend inward at the knees.

Having sides inclining inwards, as a ship; -- opposed to wall- sided.

The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the center of the sole.

An isolated or circumscribed formation, particularly where the strata dip inward, on all sides, toward a center; -- especially applied to the coal formations, called coal basins or coal fields.

To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.

The lower part of a blast furnace, which slopes inward, or the widest space at the top of this part.

elessly; as, to brazen the matter through. Sabina brazened it out before Mrs. Wygram, but inwardly she was resolved to be a good deal more circumspect. W. Black.

h.), a kind ceiling often used in attics or garrets, in which the side walls are inclined inward at the top, following the slope of the rafters, to meet the plane surface of the upper ceiling. -- Camp chair, a light chair that can be folded up compactly for easy transportation; the seat and back are often made of stri…

), an impression (sensory) transmitted by an afferent nerve from the exterior of the body inwards, to the central organ.