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(in‘sid or in-sid’), n. and a. [ n.) I, n. 1, The inner side or part; the interior, as opposed to the outside or exterior: as, the inside of the hand; the inside of a house; the inside of a newspaper. Show the inside of your purse to the outside of his hand. Shak., W. T., iv. 3, 883. Tf I had an ostrich in my inside—I would drink till twelve every night, and eat broiled-bones till six every morning. Trollope, The Clave rings, I. 277. 2. pl. Interior parts or appurtenances; things within. Specifically—(a) The entrails, () Internal thoughts or feelings, etc. We count him a wise man that knows the minds and insides of men. Selden, Table-Talk, p. 100. 3. An inside pa enger in a vehicle. So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three insides. G. Canning, in Loves of the Triangles, 1. 178, The lord lieutenant alone pretended to the magnificence of a wheel-carriage bearing eight insides and six outsides, The insides were their Graces in person. Scott, Old Mortality, ii. Inside of a sheet, in printing, the side which is folded in; that side of a sheet which contains the second page; an inner form. See form, 6.—Inside of a sword-hilt, that part of a sword-hilt which corresponds to the inside or palm of the hand when the sword is held as on guard, Compare outside.— Patent inside, See patent. II, a. Being on the inside; inner; interior; internal: as, an inside view; an inside seat in a coach. Is whispering nothing? Is leaning cheek to cheek? is meeting noses? Ki ing with inside lip?. is this nothing? Shak., W. T., i. 2, 287. Inside gear. See gear.—Inside gearing, teeth cut on the concave side of an arc.— Inside tin, in bookbinding, a sheet of thin metal placed between the cover and the fly-leaf, before the proce of pasting down, with intent to keep the leaves smooth and prevent dampne .— To have the inside track, to have the inner side of a track or course in racing and running; hence, colloquially (as the inner side is shorter on the curves than the outer), to haye the advantage; be in a position of superiority.