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/ɪnsˈaɪd/ /ˈɪnsˌaɪd/ Listen

preposition

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

noun

Inside n.

1.

The part within; interior or internal portion; content. "Looked he o' the inside of the paper?"

2.

pl. The inward parts; entrails; bowels; hence, that which is within; private thoughts and feelings. "Here's none but friends; we may speak Our insides freely."

3.

An inside passenger of a coach or carriage, as distinguished from one upon the outside. (Colloq. Eng.) "So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourne, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three insides."

Patent insides or Patent outsides, a name give to newspaper sheets printed on one side with general and miscellaneous matter, and furnished wholesale to offices of small newspapers, where the blank pages are filled up with recent and local news.

adjective

Inside adj.

1.

Being within; included or inclosed in anything; contained; interior; internal; as, the inside passengers of a stagecoach; inside decoration. "Kissing with inside lip."

2.

Adapted to the interior.

Inside callipers (Mech.), callipers for measuring the diameters of holes, etc.

Inside finish (Arch.), a general term for the final work in any building necessary for its completion, but other than unusual decoration; thus, in joiner work, the doors and windows, inside shutters, door and window trimmings, paneled jams, baseboards, and sometimes flooring and stairs; in plaster work, the finishing coat, the cornices, centerpieces, etc.,; in painting, all simple painting of woodwork and plastering.

Inside track, the inner part of a race course; hence, colloquially, advantage of place, facilities, contacts, etc., in competition.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Inside" Quotes from Famous Books

... hear them till many years afterwards. Mr Schank was still doing duty on board the frigate expecting to be superseded, that he might commence refitting the brig. It had just become dark. She was lying some distance inside of us. Happily for themselves several of the crew in charge had come on board the frigate. Suddenly a tremendous explosion was heard. Bright flames burst forth from the spot where the brig lay, and a huge pyramid of fire was seen to rush upward towards the sky, where it burst ...

— Ben Burton - Born and Bred at Sea • W. H. G. Kingston

... was answered by the servant, who, on finding the door locked, and hearing the row inside, began to knock and inquire loudly what was the matter. The question was more loudly answered by Furlong, who roared out, "Bweak the door! bweak the door!" interlarding his directions ...

— Handy Andy, Vol. 2 - A Tale of Irish Life • Samuel Lover

... Diddlerowski and Counts Scaramouchi, who caper on the platform outside for their living? The populace would pelt these harlequin horse-jockeys of fashionable life off their stage, if there was nothing better to be seen inside; but it fortunately happens ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXVIII. February, 1843. Vol. LIII. • Various

... little bird to pick its teeth. Look, Clare, that bony thing is a skeleton—the skeleton of a lizard. Paws off, my dear; mustn't touch. That's amber, just like barley sugar, only not so nice; people make necklaces of it. There's a poor little dead fly inside. Those are the dear delightful humming-birds; look at their crests, just like Mamma's jewels. See the shells; aren't they beauties? People get pearls out of those great flat ones, and dive all down to the bottom of the sea after them; mustn't touch, my ...

— Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe • Charlotte M. Yonge

... judge of writing say, as he did to me, that your late brother's knowledge of it was not (fine writer as he was) comparable to yours. His was but as the knowledge of the outside of a clock-work machine, while yours was that of all the finer springs and movements of the inside.' Richardson Corres. ii. 104. Mrs. Calderwood, writing of her visit to the Low Countries in 1756, says:—'All Richison's [Richardson's] books are translated, and much admired abroad; but for Fielding's the foreigners have no notion of them, ...

— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill

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