Withinside

adv., prep., (sb.). Now arch. or dial. (Also with hyphen, or rarely as two words.) [f. WITHIN + SIDE sb.¹, after inside.] A. adv.

  1.  On the inner side: = INSIDE adv. 1, WITHIN adv. 1 (in part). Also const. of.

a. 1595.  Southwell, Hundred Medit. (1873), 70. The windows … were wider … withinside than without.

1651.  French, Distill., i. 38. The salt … which adheres to the neck of the Retort withinside.

1731.  Miller, Gard. Dict., s.v. Greenhouse, Within-side of the Windows … you should have good strong Shutters.

1772.  Graves, Spir. Quix., IV. xii. A small oval picture,… fixed in a pannel, within-side of the door.

1800.  T. Green, Diary Lover Lit. (1810), 204. He employs … the illustration of a man withinside, and another withoutside, of a sphere, disputing on its convexity or concavity.

c. 1850.  Rudim. Navig. (Weale), 154. String, one or two planks withinside, next under the gunwale, answering to the sheer-strakes withoutside.

  2.  In (or to) the inner part or interior (of): = INSIDE adv. 2, WITHIN adv. 1 (in part), 1 b, 1 d. Also, indoors: WITHIN adv. 2 b.

1598.  Barret, Theor. Warres, V. i. 126. Cauallero, or a mount withinside distant from the curtine.

1712.  Steele, Spect., No. 533, ¶ 2. What passes … within-side of those Vehicles.

a. 1723.  Sir C. Wren, in Lucy Phillimore, Mem. (1881), 347. A Basis of squar’d stone fifty foot high … so contriv’d within-side as to form a very intricate Labyrinth.

a. 1774.  Goldsm., Surv. Exp. Philos. (1776), I. 389. The diver … sate upon a small seat within-side. Ibid. (1774), Nat. Hist. (1862), I. VI. xi. 464. The porcupine’s quill is within-side spongy.

1801.  Maria Edgeworth, Irish Bulls, vii. The imprudence of firing at the door of a house without having previously examined whether any one was withinside.

1806.  R. Cumberland, Mem. (1807), II. 153. An edifice, that requires a day to examine it within side and without. Ibid., 397. A gaudy equipage will attract notice, though it shall carry a dull company withinside of it.

1807.  Southey, Espriella’s Lett., xxxvii. (1808), II. 78. We meant … to have forsaken the roof and taken our seats withinside.

1889.  Stevenson, Master of Ballantrae, x. 260. My gentleman sat withinside tailor-wise and busily stitching.

  3.  fig. Within the limits of.

1856.  J. Grote, in Cambr. Ess., 104. The classical range is restricted withinside of Greek and Latin literature in a manner hard to give good reason for.

  B.  prep. = INSIDE prep.

  1.  On the inner side of: = WITHIN prep. 1 b, d.

1760–72.  H. Brooke, Fool of Qual. (1809), III. 99. The stake … they run up withinside the spinal bone.

a. 1766.  Mrs. F. Sheridan, Nourjahad (1767), 25. It was within-side the walls of the temple.

1851.  Borrow, Lavengro, xcix. (1893), 398. Various evolutions withinside the pale.

1852.  Thackeray, Esmond, I. ix. Holiday music from within-side a prison wall.

  2.  In the inner part of: = WITHIN prep. 1.

1686.  Plot, Staffordsh., 198. Why may not these imperfect Metalls … grow … withoutside the stalks of Gorse, as well as the perfect both without and withinside other plants?

1782.  Eliz. Blower, Geo. Bateman, II. 200. Permit her to stay within-side the house.

1815.  Jane Austen, Emma, I. x. Harriet … had never … been within side the Vicarage.

1849.  De Quincey, Engl. Mail Coach, Wks. 1863, IV. 348, note. Graves within-side the cathedrals.

  † C.  sb. The inner side: = INSIDE sb. 1. Obs. rare.

a. 1814.  Bandit, II. in New Brit. Theatre, I. 409. She fastens the within-side.

  So Withinsides adv. arch. or dial.

1891.  Stevenson, Island Nts.’ Entert., Bottle Imp (1893), 154. Withinsides something obscurely moved. Ibid. (a. 1894), Fables, xviii. Touchstone. His soul withinsides was as little as a pea.

1910.  Kipling, Rewards & Fairies, 74. That thought shrivelled me withinsides.