A word used to express the relation of presence, existence, situation, inclusion, action, etc., within limits, as of place, time, condition, circumstances, etc.Of place or situation: Within the bounds or limits of; within: as, in the house; in the city; to keep a subject in mind.Among; in the midst of.Of time: Of a point of time, or a period taken as a point: At.Of a course or period of time: Within the limits or duration of; during: as, in the present year; in two hours.Of a limit of time: At the expiration of: as, a note due in three months.Of action: Under process of; undergoing the process or running the course of: used especially before verbal nouns proper, or the same used participially.Of being: Within the power, capacity, or possession of: noting presence within as an inherent quality, distinguishing characteristic, or constituent element or part, or intimacy of relation: as, he has in him the making of a great man; it is not in her to desert him.Of state, condition, circumstance, or manner: In the condition, state, etc., of: as, in sickness and in health; painted in yellow; in arms (armed); in doubt; in very deed; paper in quires; grain in bulk; the party in power.Of range, purview, or use: With regard to; within the range of: as, in politics; in theology or philosophy; in botany, etc.Of number, amount, quantity, etc.: Within the body or whole of; existing or contained in: as, there are ten tens in a hundred; four quarts in a gallon; the good men in a community.To the amount of; for or to the payment of, absolutely or contingently: as, to amerce, bind, fine, or condemn in a thousand dollars.Of material, form, method, etc.: Of; made of; consisting of; with: as, a statue in bronze; a worker in metal; to paint in oils; a book written in Latin; a volume in leather or cloth; music in triple time.Of means or instruments: By means of; with; by; through.Of cause or occasion: From; because of; on account of; for the sake of: as, to rejoice in an ancient lineage; in the name of God.Of end: With respect to; as regards; concerning.Of proportion or partition: From among; out of: as, one in ten.Of motion or direction: Into: as, to break a thing in two; to put in operation.Of purpose, intent, or result: For; to; by way of: as, to act in self-defense; in conclusion.According to: as, in all likelihood.Occupied with.On; upon: as, in the whole; in guard: in various archaic uses now more commonly expressed by on.In law. See the extract.Having the top carriage run forward to the front end of the chassis: applied to heavy guns in the firing position.With the name only: said of the indorsement of a bill or note by merely writing one's name on it.Bound with boards. See board, 11.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).Inward; coming in, as to a place.Close; home.In law, in possession; in enjoyment; invested: 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 be in by the lease of his lessor (that is, his title or estate is derived from the lease).Nautical, furled or stowed: said of sails.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.Into the bargain: as, ten cents a dozen and one thrown in.To be or keep on terms of friendship, familiarity, or intimacy with.n. A person in office; specifically, in politics, a member of the party in power.n. A nook or corner; used chiefly in the phrase ins and outs.n. Hence— All the details or intricacies of a matter: as, the ins and outs of a question.To get in; take or put in; house.A Latin preposition. cognate with English in.n. An obsolete spelling of inn.n. In chem., the symbol for indium.n. An abbreviation of inch or inches.n. A prefix of Anglo-Saxon origin, being the preposition and adverb in so used.n. A prefix of Latin origin, being the Latin preposition in so used.n. A prefix of Latin origin, having a negative or privative force, ‘not, -less, without.’n. A suffix of Latin (or Greek) origin forming, in Latin, adjectives, and nouns thence derived, from nouns, many of which formations have come into or are imitated in modern Latin and English.n. A suffix of Latin origin occurring, unfelt in English, in nouns formed as nouns in Latin, as in ravin or raven (doublet rapine), ruin, discipline, doctrine, medicine, etc. It occurs also in its Latin form -ina (which see), and is ultimately identical with -in, -ine.n. A suffix of Latin or Greek origin, ultimately identical with the fem. of the preceding (-in, -ine), occurring as a feminine formative in heroine.n. The same suffix used in a special manner in chemical and mineralogical nomenclature, forming names of some of the elements, as in bromine, chlorin, etc., but usually derivatives, as in glycerin, acetin, etc.A simplified spelling of inn.
