inlying

American  

[in-lahy-ing] / ˈɪnˌlaɪ ɪŋ /

adjective

1. located near the center or farther in; lying inside.

2. lying within a region or country.

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inlying British  

/ ˈɪnˌlaɪɪŋ /

adjective

1. situated within or inside

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Etymology

Origin of inlying

First recorded in 1840–45; in- ¹ ( def. ) + lying ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

Then guards and inlying pickets were mounted and the scouts withdrawn.

From Life in an Indian Outpost by Casserly, Gordon

Behind it the infantry lie down to sleep, a section of each company, as an inlying picket, dressed and accoutred.

From The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War by Churchill, Winston

True polish in marble or in speech reveals inlying realities, and, in the latter at least, mere smoothness, either of sound or of meaning, is not worthy of the name.

From A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare by MacDonald, George

We very soon got settled down, and mounted a guard and an inlying picquet.

From "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders by Currie, John Allister

On the first sound of firing the inlying picket of the 24th Punjaub Infantry doubled out to reinforce the pickets on the road, and in the water-gorge.

From The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War by Churchill, Winston