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inward
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inward \In"ward\ ([i^]n*w[~e]rd), a. [AS. inweard, inneweard, innanweard, fr. innan, inne, within (fr. in in; see In) + the suffix -weard, E. -ward.]
Being or placed within; inner; interior; -- opposed to outward.
--Milton.Seated in the mind, heart, spirit, or soul. ``Inward beauty.''
--Shak.-
Intimate; domestic; private. [Obs.]
All my inward friends abhorred me.
--Job xix. 19.He had had occasion, by one very inward with him, to know in part the discourse of his life.
--Sir P. Sidney.
Inward \In"ward\, n.
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That which is inward or within; especially, in the plural, the inner parts or organs of the body; the viscera.
--Jer. Taylor.Then sacrificing, laid the inwards and their fat.
--Milton. The mental faculties; -- usually pl. [Obs.]
An intimate or familiar friend or acquaintance. [Obs.] ``I was an inward of his.''
--Shak.
Inward \In"ward\, Inwards \In"wards\, adv. [AS. inweard. The ending -s is prop. a genitive ending. See Inward, a., -wards.]
Toward the inside; toward the center or interior; as, to bend a thing inward.
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Into, or toward, the mind or thoughts; inwardly; as, to turn the attention inward.
So much the rather, thou Celestial Light, Shine inward.
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English inweard, inneweard (adj., adv.) "inmost; sincere; internal, intrinsic; deep," from Proto-Germanic *inwarth "inward" (cognates: Old Norse innanverðr, Old High German inwart, Middle Dutch inwaert), from root of Old English inne "in" (see in) + -weard (see -ward).
Wiktionary
a. 1 Situated on the inside; that is within, inner; belonging to the inside. (from 9th c.) 2 (context obsolete English) intimate, closely acquainted; familiar. (16th-17th c.) adv. Towards the inside. (from 11th c.) n. 1 (context obsolete chiefly in the plural English) That which is inward or within; the inner parts or organs of the body; the viscera. 2 (context obsolete chiefly in the plural English) The mental faculties. 3 (context obsolete English) A familiar friend or acquaintance.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Inward may refer to:
- Avera and Inward, feudal services
- Direct Inward Dialing, also called Direct Dial-In (DDI) in Europe and Australasia
- Inward Bound (IB), running competition between the residential halls and colleges of the Australian National University
- Inward investment, the injection of money from an external source into a region
- Inward Parts, the second album by the English band The Others
- Inward-rectifier potassium ion channel (Kir, IRK), a specific subset of potassium selective ion channels
- North England Inward Investment Agency, UK government sponsored agency
Usage examples of "inward".
The heavy door exploded inward, blasted into splinters, and Aunt Pol stood in the shattered doorway, her white lock ablaze and her eyes dreadful.
A plant of Drosera, with the edges of its leaves curled inwards, so as to form a temporary stomach, with the glands of the closely inflected tentacles pouring forth their acid secretion, which dissolves animal matter, afterwards to be absorbed, may be said to feed like an animal.
Below the boughs the road swept along the crest of the crag and thence curved inward, and one surveying the scene from the windows of a bungalow at no great distance could look straight beyond the point of the precipice and into the heart of the sunset, still aflare about the west.
Their bond made Tarrant sensitive to her aura, but turning her focus inward dimmed her auric energy as if she was really sleeping.
When he slid his thumb back and forth across the smooth leather, he felt not what was there but what might soon be available for his caress: delicately shaped ridges of cartilage forming the auricula and pinna, the graceful curves of the channels that focused sound waves inward toward the tympanic membrane.
I pray thee, ere thou convince gay attire of inward folly, lest beholding thee we misdoubt thy precept--or thy wisdom.
The door was shoved inward and be Bem strode importantly into the chamber with the Federation conhugent close behind.
The metal slab was beveled inward, and thicker than one would expect, sitting easily in the shaped lip of the well.
But yet forthwith returning to the inward impression of my sweetest obiect, stil dwelling in the secret of my heart, I fell into blobering teares, for the losse of two so worthie iewels.
Thawing mud oozed through cracks in the masonry, and entire sections of tunnel wall had buckled inward from the pressure of moving earth.
The abandoned Bussard ramjet crossed over the sun and curved inward, following a shallow hyperbola which would take it through the plane of the planets.
Master Byles Gridley lost himself for half a minute in a most discreditable inward discussion as to whether Laura Penhallow was probably one or two years older than Mr.
Rivers and Brooks, there to bathe and cool himself, and often he drinks of the clear purls, as thinking by that, to quench his inward Caum, and scorching.
Yet neuertheles I could not so bridle and suppresse my amorous inflamed sighes, or so closely couer them, but that they would needs expresse my inward desire.
Meantime Mr Cupples, in order that he might bear such outward signs of inward grace as would appeal to the perceptions of the Senatus, got a new hat, and changed his shabby tail-coat for a black frock.