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▪ I. inlet, n.|ˈɪnlɪt|
Also 4 inlate.
[f. in adv. 11 d + let v.1 Cf. to let in.]
1. Letting in, admission. Now rare.
a1300Cursor M. 18078 Þe prince of hell, vndos your yate! Þe king of blis will haf in-late. c1325Metr. Hom. 51 Ful redi sal we haf inlate In to that blis that lastes ay. a1635Naunton Fragm. Reg. (Arb.) 57 Demanding his name, she said, Fail you not to come to the Court..And this was his inlet, and the beginnings of his grace. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. ii. v. §51 Had there been a Castle in the place of this Monastery..probably they might have stopped the Danish Invasion at the first Inlet thereof. a1704T. Brown Praise of Poverty Wks. 1730 I. 101 To gain the easier and unsuspected in-let into his mind and affections. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) II. 188, I had already forgotten the light which was my first inlet into life. 1861Lytton & Fane Tannhäuser 97 Forcing sharp inlet to her throne in Heaven.
2. A way of admission; an entrance.
1624Wotton Archit. in Reliq. (1672) 33 These In-lets of Men and of Light [i.e. doors and windows], I couple to⁓gether. 1681Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) I. 129 The French Kings troops had entred Cassall, the inlett into Italy. 1774Bainton Inclos. Act 15 Drains, inlets, outlets, and water courses. 1818Leigh New Pict. Lond. 329 Pall Mall must always be one of the inlets to the west end of the town. 1870Rolleston Anim. Life 101 Two venous inlets are seen in the anterior fourth of the upper surface of the heart.
fig.1662in Howell State Trials (1816) V. 1330 O that we may find death a sweet in-let and a passage to thy blessed arms. 1768Goldsm. Good-n. Man i. Wks. (Globe) 613/2 An increase of our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes. 1833H. Martineau Berkeley the Banker i. iii. 41 Affected by the establishment of a bank, or by some other inlet of a flood of paper money.
3. A narrow opening by which the water penetrates into the land; a small arm of the sea, an indentation in the sea-coast or the bank of a lake or river; a creek.
1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 234 A thing yet well knowne in Kent, and expressed by the word yenlade or yenlet, which betokeneth an Indraught or Inlett of water into the lande. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 744 Furnished out the said Henry Hudson, to trie if through any of those Inlets, which Davis saw..any passage might be found to the other Ocean called the South-Sea. 1775Johnson Journ. West. Isl., Dunvegan, We landed at Port Re..The port is made by an inlet of the sea, deep and narrow. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. II. xxvi. 257 The margin of these large fields is almost always broken by inlets of open water.
4. A piece let in or inserted.
1798I. Allen Hist. Vermont 3 The whole range is composed of huge rocks confusedly piled on one another, though in many places are large inlets of excellent land. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Inlet,..inserted materials. 1886Pall Mall G. 17 Dec. 13/2 The inlet into the panel in the upper part of the back of the chair is a photograph of a statue of Hunter.
5. Anat. The upper opening into a cavity of the body; used orig. of the pelvis and later of the thorax (both as cavities of the skeleton) and of the larynx.
1828J. Quain Elem. Anat. ii. 69 The central line or axis of the inlet, differs very decidedly from that of the outlet;..both therefore decussate towards the centre of the pelvic cavity. 1906A. M. Buchanan Manual of Anat. I. 210 The true pelvis..presents a brim or inlet, a cavity, and an outlet. 1960E. Gardner et al. Anat. xxix. 339/1 The thoracic cavity communicates with the front of the neck by the superior thoracic aperture, or thoracic inlet. Ibid. lxxxii. 938/2 The inlet or auditus of the larynx..leads from the laryngopharynx into the cavity of the larynx.
6. attrib., as inlet area, inlet-cam, inlet-chamber, inlet nipple, inlet-pipe, inlet valve, inlet ventilation.
1882Rep. to Ho. Repr. Prec. Metals U.S. 584 The inlet valves are screwed into the piston. 1891Daily News 17 Jan. 6/4 The inlet ventilation is by means of fresh-air reservoirs. 1901L. M. Waterhouse Conduit Wiring 56 Metal inlet and outlet nipples. 1903Architect (Suppl.) 24 Apr. 23/2 A 5-inch pipe is carried from the inlet-chamber to the reservoir. 1907Westm. Gaz. 1 Oct. 7/1 Connecting the nozzle to the inlet-pipe of the balloon, the further supply of gas was added to that already within the envelope. 1908Ibid. 9 Jan. 4/1 The inlet-cam being drawn out of position..the inlet-valves become completely closed.
Hence ˈinleted a., having an inlet.
1871R. Ellis Catullus lxiv. 74 When..Theseus Started alert from a beach deep-inleted of Piræus.
▪ II. inlet, ppl. a.|ˈɪnˌlɛt|
[f. in adv. 11 b + pa. pple. of let v.1: cf. to let in.]
1. Let in, inserted.
1849Ruskin Sev. Lamps iv. §12. 133 A round dot formed by a little inlet circle of serpentine.
2. Needlework. Ornamented with lace, etc., let in or inserted. So ˈinletting vbl. n.
1901Daily Chron. 31 Aug. 8/3 Flowing skirts inlet with lace. 1904Ibid. 3 May 8/5 The inletting and trimming of a serge or cloth gown with Irish lace is quite usual.
▪ III. inlet, v.|ɪnˈlɛt|
[f. in-1 + let v.1 Orig. two words = let in.]
To let in.
†1. trans. To allow to enter; to admit. Obs.
c1320Sir Tristr. 629 Rohand þo tok he And at þe gate in lete. a1400Octouian 1188 Men openede the gate..He was yn-late. 1627–47Feltham Resolves 163 The minde is then shut up in the borough of the body—none of the Cinque ports of the Isle of Man are then open to in-let any strange disturbers. 1661― Lusoria xxvii. 25 The first act she [woman] did try Seduc'd Mankind, inletted policy, Taught him a way..To carry murther in a smiling brow.
2. To let in or insert (one thing) in another.
1860Wraxall tr. Kohl's Wand. Lake Superior 6, I may be permitted to inlet here a slight episode in my wigwam building. 1884A. J. Butler Anc. Copt. Ch. Egypt I. iii. 87 All round the framing of the doors tablets of solid ivory..are inlet. |