in 
I, very providently preventing the worst, dismounted 
from my horse, and leu him in my hand. 
( ,.,, m t, Crudities, I. 88. 
10. Of cause or occasion: From; because of; 
on account of; for the sako of: UK, to rejoice in 
an ancient lineup-; in the name of God. 
If team must be, 
I should in justice ween 'em, and for you. 
Fletcher, Valentinlan, Iv. 4. 
Old All Atar hail watched from his fortress every move- 
ment of the Christian army, and had exulted in all the 
errors of its commanders. Irviny, Granada, p. 08. 
Every feature in that marvelous scene delighted him, 
both in itself and for the sake of the innumerable associa- 
tions and images which it conjured up. 
freoelyan, Maeaulay, I. 322. 
11 . Of end : With respect to ; as regards ; con- 
cerning. 
And they glorified God in me. Oil. L 24. 
For the slaughter committed, they were In great doubt 
what to do in it. Winthnp, Hist. New England, II. 300. 
There Is nothing else I could disobey you in. 
Sheridan, The Duenna, i. 3. 
Men adroit 
In speech, and for communion with the world 
Accomplished. Wordsworth, Prelude, xili. 
12. Of proportion or partition : From among; 
out of: as, one iten. 
Few in millions 
Can speak like us. Slink-., Tempest, 11. 1. 
13. Of motion or direction : Into: as, to break 
a thing in two ; to put in operation. 
I wil the, without. 'ii div.li', 
In suche another place lede. 
Chaucer, House of Fame, 1. 1914. 
Hence, villain ' never more come in my sight 
Shot., Rich. II., v. 2. 
His Pipe in pieces broke. 
Congreoe, Death of Queen Mary. 
14. Of purpose, intent, or result: For; to; by 
wayof: as, to act in self -defense; in conclusion. 
It is not many years ago since Lapirius. in wrong of his 
elder brother, came to a great estate by gift of his father. 
Sleele, Spectator, No. 248. 
l:i answer to the breath of prayer. 
Whittier, Cypress-Tree of Ceylon. 
15. According to: as, in. all likelihood. 
In all deccncle the stile ought to conforme with the na- 
ture of the subject. 
Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 126. 
16f. Occupied with. 
He was much in the troublesome thoughts of the sins 
he had committed, both since and before he began to be 
a Pilgrim. Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, p. 212. 
17. On; upon: as, in the whole; in guard: in 
various archaic uses now more commonly ex- 
pressed by on. 
And on this daye it was founden of Helayne tn the 
mi mute of caluarye. Holy Hood (E. E. T. S.\ p. 154. 
" In condlcloun," quod Conscience, "that thow konne 
defende 
And rule t hi rewme In resoun. " 
Piers Plowman (B), xlx. 474. 
In the third day of May, 
To Carlelle did come 
A kind curteous child. 
The Bay and the Mantle (Child's Ballads, I. 8). 
In his returne he discovered the Towne and Country 
of Warraskoyack. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's True Travels, I. 156. 
A certain rule could not be found out for an equal rate 
between buyer and seller, though much labor had been 
bestowed i it Winthrop, Hist New England, I. 880. 
We were forced to cut our mainmast by the board ; 
which so disabled the ship that she could not proceed in 
her voyage. R. Knox (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 342). 
In act, actual; existing. Inaction, (a) Seeaclion. (b) 
In /"". See tile extract 
A thing is said to be in action when It Is not in posses- 
sion, and for its recovery an action is necessary. 
Rapalje and Lawrence. 
Inactto. Seeact. inall See all. In and for Itself, 
in the Hegelian philo*., in the relations and connections 
which are really essential to it, and developed out of it 
In as far as, to the extent that. 
Self-fertilization ia manifestly advantageous in at far 
as it insures a full supply of seed. 
Darn-in, Fertil. of Orchids by Insects, p. 57. 
In as much as, or Inasmuch as, seeing that : consider- 
ing that; since. In battery. (n) Prepared for action: 
said of a field-gun, (li) Having the top carriage run for- 
ward to the front end of the chassis: applied to heavy 
guns in the tiring position. In blank. (<0 With blank 
spaces to be tilled out; in outline: as, to issue commis- 
sions in Won*, (d) With the name only: said of the in- 
dorsement of a bill or note by merely writing one's name 
on it. In boards, in bookbinding: () Having the side- 
boards laced or tipped to the rounded back, preparatory 
to covering with cloth or leather. (6) Bound with boards. 
See Ijoanl, 11. In bulk, in the heap: not packed in bags, 
b;un']>. KIMS, .>r other separate jKtekages : as, a cargo of 
grain i;i bulk. In course. See ootir i. 
7nc<mr.. . . it must have been tin- uwner of the chest- 
nut, and no one else. Sterne, Tristram .shandy, Iv. 27. 
In energy, in operation. In Itself (as a thing), apart 
from what is not essential to it ; apart from its relations, 
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especially from Its relation to the mind and senses of man ; 
as it is Intrinsically. 
A thing known in itself is the (sole) prescntative or in- 
tuitive object of knowledge, or the (sole) object of a pre- 
sentative or intuitive knowledge. A thing known in :iu<i 
through something else is the primary, mediate, reunite, 
renl, existent or represented, object of mediate know- 
ledge. ... A thing to be known in itself mast be known 
as actually existing, and it cannot be known as actually 
existing unless It be known as existing in Its when and 
its where. Sir W. II amiltnn. Metaphysics, xvli. 
In that, for the reason that ; because. 
Some things they do in that they are men ; . . . some 
things in that they are men misled and blinded with error. 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity. 
In the abstract, viewed abstractly; not taking account 
of inessential conditions. In the concrete, as things are 
found in the real world. 
II. arfc. 1. In or into some place, position, 
or state indicated by the context : an elliptical 
use of the preposition in : as, the master is not 
in (in the house, or at home) ; the ship is in (in 
port); come in (into the room, house, etc.); to 
keep one's temper in (in restraint, or within 
bounds). 
Whichc havyn ys callyd Swafane, In Turkey, And whanne 
we war in/j we cowd nott get owt nor kast our Anker. 
TorUnyton, Diarie of Eng. Travell, p. 02. 
They went in to Hezekiah the king. 2 Chron. xxix. 18. 
Well, would I were in, that I am out with him once. 
11. Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour, ii. 2. 
I am in, 
And what was got with cruelty, with blood 
Must be defended. Fletcher, Double Marriage, L 2. 
It being for their advantage to hold in with us, we may 
safely trust them. Winthnp, Hist New England, II. 133. 
The old Finn stood already with a ilr torch, waiting to 
light us in. li. Taylor, Northern Travel, p. 148. 
2. Inward; coming in, as to a place. 
I see that there are three trains in and three out every 
Sabbath, Trollope, Unix-heater Towers, p. 29. 
3. Close; home. 
They [left-handed fencers) are in with you, if you offer 
to fall back without keeping your guard. Tatter. 
4. In law, in possession; in enjoyment; invest- 
ed : used in expressing the nature or the mode 
of acquiring an estate, or the right upon which 
a seizin is founded : thus, a tenant is said to bo 
in by the lease of his lessor (that is, his title 
or estate is derived from the lease). 5. Xaut., 
furled or stowed: said of sails. 6. In advance 
or in addition ; beyond what was the case, was 
expected, or the like; to the good; thrown in: 
as, he found himself five dollars in. [Colloq.] 
And so you have the fight 171, gratis. Dickens. 
7. Into the bargain: as, ten cents a dozen and 
one thrown in. [Colloq. ] To be In for (a thing), to 
be destined to receive, suffer, or do (something); be bent 
upon or committed to : as, to be in for a beating ; to be in 
for a lark. 
I wan in /or a list of blunders. 
Gohtsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, iv. 
To be or keep In with, (a) To be or keep close or near : 
as, to keep a snip in with the land. (b) To be or keep on 
terms of friendship, familiarity, or intimacy with. To 
bind In, come In, give In, etc. See the verbs. To 
breed In and In, See breed. To have one's hand In. 
See hand. To throw In, to add in excess; give beyond 
what is bargained or paid for : as, the remnant of the piece 
was thrown in. 
in 1 (in), M. [< ini, adv.'} 1. A person in office : 
specifically, in politics, a member of the party 
in power. 
And doom'd a victim for the sins 
Of half the outs and all the ins. 
Chatterton, Prophecy. 
There was then (1765) only two political parties, the in 
and the outs. The in* strove to stay in, and keep the outs 
out ; the outs strove to get in, and turn the iiu out. 
J. llutton. 
The disappointed Outs are lukewarm and often envious 
of the Int. New Princeton Kev., I. 67. 
The "ins". . . always have . . . averred, with a fervor 
which can only spring from heartfelt conviction, that the 
Incoming of the "outs" will be shortly followed by the 
final crack of doom. X. A. Rev., CXXIII. 459. 
2. A nook or corner : used chiefly in the phrase 
ins and outs Ins and outs, (a) Nooks and comers ; 
turns and windings : as, the ins and out* of a garden, or of 
an old house. 
Take my arm; I can guide yon better so. It's dark, 
and I know the i/w and outt. 
C. F. Woolson, Jupiter Lights, xv. 
Hence (b) All the details or intricacies of a matter: as, 
the im and outs of a question. 
Mrs. Harper was standing moralizing on the i/w and 
outs of family life. Kin. Craft, Agatha's Husband, xiii. 
in't (in), t'- t. [Also inn, now with ref. only to 
inn, n. ; < ME. innen, < AS. innian, pet in, lodge. 
< I'M/I, in, in: see in 1 , prep.'} To get in; take or 
put in; hoiisr. 
And Goddis mercy schal ynne my corn, 
And fede me with that that y neuere sewe. 
Hymns to Virgin, etc. (E. E. T. 8.), p. 69. 
-In 
All was inwii at last into the King's Karne. 
liacon, Hist. Henry VIL (ed. 1641X p. 87. 
in 2 (in),;jr<y>. [L.,=AS.andE.in,etc.: seein 1 .] 
A Latin preposition, cognate with English in. 
It occurs in many phrase* more or less current in English 
use, as iu loco parentis, in abientia, in ette, in poor., in 
statu quo, etc. 
in-'t, n. An obsolete spelling of inn. 
In. In rhcm., the symbol for indium. 
in. An abbreviation of inch or inches. 
in- 1 . [ME. in-. < AS. in- = OS. OFries. D. in- 
= OHG. MHO. G. in-, with long vowel OHG. 
MHG. in-, G. cin- = led. i-, inn- = Dan. iml- = 
Sw. in- = Goth, in- = L. in- (> E. in- 2 , q. v.) = Gr. 
/i'-; being the prep, and adv. incomp. : gee in 1 .] 
A prefix of Anglo-Saxon origin, being the prepo- 
sition and adverb in so used. It Is ultimately 
Identical with in--' of Latin origin ; but the latter in Eng- 
lish apprehension is often unmeaning, while in-l always 
conveys the distinct sense of ' In 'or 'into,' as in inborn, 
inbred, income, inland, inlet, inmate, iiunde, insight, in- 
snare, inurav, etc. In ingot, however, the prefix is un- 
felt, the word being no longer recognized as a compound. 
In consequence of its formal and original Identity with 
in--, it may assume the same phases, becoming tin- before 
a labial, as in impark, imp* n, imbitter, imbody, immeth, 
immingle, or varying to en-, as in f ncloud, enfetter, before a 
labial to em-, as in embed, embody, embitter, etc., the dis- 
tinction being purely historical and depending on the ori- 
gin, native or foreign, of t hi,- primitive. In the etymologle; 
in-, en- = Sp. in-, en- = Pg. in-, en- = It. in-, < 
L. in-, being the prep, in (see in 2 ) in comp., 
and conveying, according to the verb, the no- 
tion of rest or existence in, or of motion, direc- 
tion, or inclination into, to, or upon ; often mere- 
ly intensive, and in later use sometimes with- 
out assignable force. In classical L. in- gener- 
ally remained unchanged in all positions, but 
later was usually assimilated, ii- before a la- 
bial, il- before /, ir- before r, whence the same in 
mod. languages. In OF., and hence in ME. 
and mod. F. and E., reg. en-, but with a constant 
tendency to revert to the L. in-, the form in en- 
often ceasing to bo used in E. or being used 
alongside of in- without distinction.] A prefix 
of Latin origin, being the Latin preposition in so 
used. It is ultimately identical with in-l of English ori- 
gin, having the same literal sense ; but It is often merely in- 
tensive, and in many words has in modern apprehension no 
assignable force. Before a labial in- in later Latin, and 
hence in Romance, English, etc., becomes ijn-, as in imbibe, 
imperil, immanent, etc. ; before I it becomes if-, as in ilia 
tiiin, illude, illumine, etc. ; before r it becomes ir-, as in ir- 
radiate, irrigate, etc. In many words derived in fact or 
form through the French, in- interchanges with or has dis- 
placed the earlier English and French en-, the tendency 
being to use in- whenever there is a corresponding Latin 
form in in-, as in inclose, or enclose, inquire or entiuire, etc. 
See in-l, cn-i , en--. This prefix occurs uuf clt, with the ac- 
cent, as en- in enry. 
in-3. [ME. in-, en-, OF. en-, in-, F. en-, in- = 
Sp. Pg. in- = It. in-, < L. in- = Gr. av-, before 
a consonant a-, called a- privative, = Goth. 
OHG. AS. E., etc., un-, not, -less, without : see 
MM- 1 , an-6, a- 18 . In classical L. the negative in- 
generally remained unchanged in all positions ; 
but later it was subject to the same assimila- 
tions and changes as in- 2 above. In OF., and 
hence in ME. and mod. F. and E., sometimes 
en-, but then in E. unfelt as a negative, as in 
en-emy (ct.m-itnical, etc. ).] A prefix of Latin ori- 
gin, having a negative or privative force, ' not, 
-less, without.' It Is cognate with the English prefix 
un-1, with which it may interchange in English forma- 
tions : but the rule is to use in- with an obvious Latin 
primitive and un- with a native or thoroughly naturalized 
primitive, as in inanimate, incretlulous, inaccessible, in- 
equality, as against unlirin;r, unbelieving, unapproach- 
able, unequal, etc. The two forms coexist In \nedited, 
unedited, incautious, uncautimu. etc. This prefix in-3 as- 
sumes the same phonetic phases as in-l, i-2, as in im- 
partial, immense, immeasurable, illiterate, irregular, etc. ; 
It is reduced to i- In ignore, ignorant, etc. It occurs un- 
felt, with the accent, in enemy, enmity. 
-in 1 , -ine 1 . [1. ME. -in, -ine, < OF. and F. -in, 
-ine = Pr. -in, -inn = Sp. Pg. It. -ino, -in, < L. 
(a) -inus, -fnrt, -{mini = Gr. -tvof, -Ivr/, -tvov, 
forming adjectives, as in adamnntinus (< Gr. 
a<5a//dvrKOf), adamantine, jiristiitiut, pristine, 
etc.; and sometimes nouns, as enpliiiiiiK, < Gr. 
KoQivoc,, a basket; (b) -inns, -inn, -iiiiiin. form- 
ing adjectives, and nouns thence derived, from 
nouns, as in caninus, < cants, a dog, dirinus, < 
divus, a god, equinus, < equus, a horse, fern in i- 
nus, < femina, a woman, peregrinits, < jiereger, 
a traveler, etc. ; very common in proper names, 
orig. appellatives, as ditguxtinus, Calriints, Cris- 
. ,/itxtiinn. etc. 2. ME. -in, -inf. OF. and 
F. -ine = Sp. Pg. It. -inn, < L. -in. forming 
fern, abstracts from verbs (from the inf. or 
through derivatives) or from undetermined 
roots, as in ra/iina, rapine (E. also, through 
F., rat-in, raven'- 2 ), < rapere, snatch, ruina, ruin, < 
