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Inland


IN'LAND, adjective [in and land.] Interior; remote from the sea. Worcester in Massachusetts, and Lancaster in Pennsylvania, are large inland towns.

1. Within land; remote from the ocean; as an inland lake or sea.

2. Carried on within a country; domestic, not foreign; as inland trade or transportation; inland navigation.

3. Confined to a country; drawn and payable in the same country; as an inland bill of exchange, distinguished from a foreign bill, which is drawn in one country on a person living in another.

IN'LAND, noun The interior part of a country.