3 entries under this word
a. [Prefix in and ward, q. v.; A-S. inweard, inneward.] 1. Placed or being within; interior.
Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion mocks God, presenting to him the outside, and reserving the inward for his enemy. Bp. Taylor. 2. Intimate; domestic; familiar. [Obs.] He had occasion, by one very inward with him, to know in part the discourse of his life. Sidney. 3. Seated in the mind or soul.
n. That which is inward or within; especially, in the plural, the inner parts or organs of the body; the viscera. “Then sacrificing, laid the inwards and the fat.” Milton.
adv. [A-S. inweard, inneweard, Ger. einwärts. See supra.]
Sense 1. Toward the inside; as, to turn the attention inward.
Sense 2. Toward the center or interior; as, to bend a thing inward.
Sense 3. Into the mind or thoughts.
Celestial light shine inward. Milton.