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<hw>In"side`</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The part within; interior or internal portion; content.</def>

<blockquote>Looked he o' the <b>inside</b> of the paper? <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <def>The inward parts; entrails; bowels; hence, that which is within; private thoughts and feelings.</def>

<blockquote>Here's none but friends; we may speak Our <b>insides</b> freely. <i>Massinger.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>An inside passenger of a coach or carriage, as distinguished from one upon the outside.</def> <mark>[Colloq. Eng.]</mark>

<blockquote>So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourne, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three <b>insides</b>. <i>Anti-Jacobin.</i></blockquote>

<cs><mcol><col>Patent insides</col> &or; <col>outside</col></mcol>, <cd>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.</cd></cs>

<h1>Insidiate</h1> <Xpage=769>

<hw>In*sid"i*ate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>insidiatus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>insidiare</ets> to lie in ambush, fr. <ets>insidiae</ets>. See <er>Insidious</er>.]</ety> <def>To lie in ambush for.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Heywood.</i>

<h1>Insidiator</h1> <Xpage=769>

<hw>In*sid"i*a`tor</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L.]</ety> <def>One who lies in ambush.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Barrow.</i>

<h1>Insidious</h1> <Xpage=769>

<hw>In*sid"i*ous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>insidiosus</ets>, fr. <ets>insidiae</ets> an ambush, fr. <ets>insidere</ets> to sit in; pref. <ets>in-</ets> + <ets>sedere</ets> to sit: cf. F. <ets>insidieux</ets>. See <er>Sit</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Lying in wait; watching an opportunity to insnare or entrap; deceitful; sly; treacherous; -- said of persons; <as>as, the <ex>insidious</ex> foe</as>.</def> "The <i>insidious</i> witch."

<i>Cowper.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Intended to entrap; characterized by treachery and deceit; <as>as, <ex>insidious</ex> arts</as>.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>insidious</b> whisper of the bad angel. <i>Hawthorne.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Insidious disease</col> <fld>(Med.)</fld>, <cd>a disease existing, without marked symptoms, but ready to become active upon some slight occasion; a disease not appearing to be as bad as it really is.</cd></cs>

<syn>Syn. -- Crafty; wily; artful; sly; designing; guileful; circumventive; treacherous; deceitful; deceptive.</syn>

-- <wordforms><wf>In*sid"i*ous*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>In*sid"i*ous*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Insight</h1> <Xpage=769>

<hw>In"sight`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A sight or view of the interior of anything; a deep inspection or view; introspection; -- frequently used with <i>into</i>.</def>

<blockquote>He had an <b>insight</b> into almost all the secrets of state. <i>Jortin.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Power of acute observation and deduction; penetration; discernment; perception.</def>

<blockquote>Quickest <b>insight</b> In all things that to greatest actions lead. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Insignia</h1> <Xpage=769>

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