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<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament; <as>as, an <ex>innate</ex> anther</as>.</def>

<i>Gray.</i>

<cs><col>Innate ideas</col> <fld>(Metaph.)</fld>, <cd>ideas, as of God, immortality, right and wrong, supposed by some to be inherent in the mind, as a priori principles of knowledge.</cd></cs>

<h1>Innate</h1> <Xpage=766>

<hw>In*nate"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To cause to exit; to call into being.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "The first <i>innating</i> cause."

<i>Marston.</i>

<h1>Innately</h1> <Xpage=766>

<hw>In"nate*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>Naturally.</def>

<h1>Innateness</h1> <Xpage=766>

<hw>In"nate*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality of being innate.</def>

<h1>Innative</h1> <Xpage=766>

<hw>In*na"tive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Native.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chapman.</i>

<h1>Innavigable</h1> <Xpage=766>

<hw>In*nav"i*ga*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>innavigabilis</ets> : cf. F. <ets>innavigable</ets>. See <er>In-</er> not, and <er>Navigable</er>.]</ety> <def>Incapable of being navigated; impassable by ships or vessels.</def> <i>Drygen</i>. -- <wordforms><wf>In*nav"i*ga*bly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Inne</h1> <Xpage=766>

<hw>Inne</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv. & prep.</tt> <def>In.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>And eke in what array that they were <b>inne</b>. <i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Inner</h1> <Xpage=766>

<hw>In"ner</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>innera</ets>, a compar. fr. <ets>inne</ets> within, fr. <ets>in</ets> in. See <er>In</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Further in; interior; internal; not outward; <as>as, an spirit or its phenomena</as>.</def>

<blockquote>This attracts the soul, Governs the <b>inner</b> man,the nobler part. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Not obvious or easily discovered; obscure.</def>

<cs><col>Inner house</col> <fld>(Scot.)</fld>, <cd>the first and second divisions of the court of Session at Edinburgh; also,the place of their sittings.</cd> -- <col>Inner jib</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>a fore-and-aft sail set on a stay running from the fore-topmast head to the jib boom.</cd> -- <col>Inner plate</col> <fld>(Arch.)</fld>, <cd>the wall plate which lies nearest to the center of the roof,in a double-plated roof.</cd> -- <col>Inner post</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>a piece brought on at the fore side of the main post, to support the transoms.</cd> -- <col>Inner square</col> <fld>(Carp.)</fld>, <cd>the angle formed by the inner edges of a carpenter's square.</cd></cs>

<h1>Innerly</h1> <Xpage=766>

<hw>In"ner*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>More within.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Baret.</i>

<h1>Innermost</h1> <Xpage=766>

<hw>In"ner*most`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[A corruption of <ets>inmost</ets> due to influence of <ets>inner</ets>. See <er>Inmost</er>.]</ety> <def>Farthest inward; most remote from the outward part; inmost; deepest within.</def>

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