The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inner \In"ner\ ([i^]n"n[~e]r), a. [AS. innera, a compar. fr. inne within, fr. in in. See In.]
Further in; interior; internal; not outward; as, an inner chamber.
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Of or pertaining to the spirit or its phenomena.
This attracts the soul, Governs the inner man, the nobler part.
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Not obvious or easily discovered; obscure.
Inner house (Scot.), the first and second divisions of the court of Session at Edinburgh; also, the place of their sittings.
Inner jib (Naut.), a fore-and-aft sail set on a stay running from the fore-topmast head to the jib boom.
Inner plate (Arch.), the wall plate which lies nearest to the center of the roof, in a double-plated roof.
Inner post (Naut.), a piece brought on at the fore side of the main post, to support the transoms.
Inner square (Carp.), the angle formed by the inner edges of a carpenter's square.
Usage examples of "inner square".
They had made an inner square of the horses, and knights, leaving an open space where it was possible to lie, out of sight of archers (though not, of course, out of range.
Instead, the building held stone carrels of sorts, some large, some small, open to the inner square.
The Alamo is now in ruins, only two or three of the houses of the inner square being inhabited.
The inner square was dissected by evenly spaced lines, forming a 19 by 19 grid.