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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3

Part of speech: noun (n.)

The interior part of a country. Shak.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

1. Within the land; more or less remote from the ocean or from open water; interior; as, an inland town. "This wide inland sea." Spenser. From inland regions to the distant main. Cowper.

2. Limited to the land, or to inland routes; within the seashore boundary; not passing on, or over, the sea; as, inland transportation, commerce, navigation, etc.

3. Confined to a country or state; domestic; not foreing; as, an inland bill of exchange. See Exchange.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3

Part of speech: adverb (adv.)

Into, or towards, the interior, away from the coast. Cook. The greatest waves of population have rolled inland from the east. S. Turner.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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