Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-TE'RI-OR, a. [L. comp. formed from inter or intra, in or within.]

1. Internal; being within any limits, inclosure or substance; inner; opposed to exterior or superficial; as, the interior apartments of a house; the interior ornaments; the interior surface of a hollow ball; the interior parts of the earth.
2. Inland; remote from the limits, frontier or shore; as, the interior parts of a country, state or kingdom.