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Webster 1913 Edition
Interior
1.
Being within any limits, inclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner; – opposed to
exterior
, or superficial
; as, the
interior
apartments of a house; the interior
surface of a hollow ball.2.
Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland;
as, the
. interior
parts of a region or country
Syn. – Internal; inside; inner; inland; inward.
In-te′ri-or
,Noun.
1.
That which is within; the internal or inner part of a thing; the inside.
2.
The inland part of a country, state, or kingdom.
Department of the Interior
, that department of the government of the United States which has charge of pensions, patents, public lands and surveys, the Indians, education, etc.; that department of the government of a country which is specially charged with the internal affairs of that country; the home department.
– Secretary of the Interior
, the cabinet officer who, in the United States, is at the head of the Department of the Interior.
Webster 1828 Edition
Interior
INTE'RIOR
,Adj.
1.
Internal; being within any limits, inclosure or substance; inner; opposed to exterior or superficial; as the interior apartments of a house; the interior ornaments; the interior surface of a hollow ball, the interior parts of the earth.2.
Inland; remote from the limits, frontier or shore; as the interior parts of a country, state or kingdom.INTE'RIOR
,Noun.
1.
The inland part of a country, state or kingdom.