er: it is the reverse of _out-hauler_.

INITIAL VELOCITY. The velocity of a projectile at the moment of
discharge from a gun.

INJECTION-PIPE. This is fixed in the interior of a marine steam-engine,
is fitted with a cock, and communicates with the water outside: it is
for the purpose of playing into the condenser while the engine is
working, and creating a vacuum.

INLAND SEA. Mediterranean. Implies a very large gulf surrounded by land,
except at the communication with the ocean, as the Baltic, Red, and
Mediterranean Seas.

INLAND TRADE. That which is wholly managed at home, and the term is in
contradistinction to commerce. In China it is applied to canal-trade.

INLET. A term in some cases synonymous with _cove_ and _creek_ (which
see), in contradistinction to outlet, when speaking of the supply and
discharge of lakes and broad waters, or an opening in the land, forming
a passage to any inclosed water.

INNER AND OUTER TURNS. Terms applied to the passing of the reef-earings,
besides its over and under turns.

INNER JIB-STAY. A temporary stay lashed half-way in, on the jib-boom; it
sets up with lashing-eyes at the fore top-mast head.

INNER POST, OR INNER STERN-POST. The post on which the transoms are
seated. An oak timber brought on and fayed at the fore-edge of the
main-post, and generally continued as high as the wing-transom, to seat
the other transoms upon, and strengthen the whole. (_See_ STERN-POST.)
It applies to the main stern-post in steamers, the screw acting between
it and the outer, on which the rudder is hung.

INNINGS. Coast lands recovered from the sea by draining.

INNIS. An old Gaelic term for an island, still in use.

INQUIRY, COURT OF, is assembled by order of a commanding officer to
inquire into matters of an intricate nature, for his information; but
has no power of adjudication whatever: but too like the Star Chamber.

INSHORE. The opposite of _offing_.--_Inshore tack._ Standing in from
sea-ward when working to windward on a coast.

INSHORED. Come to shore.

INSIDE MUSTER-PAPER. A description of paper supplied from the dockyards,
ruled and headed, for making ships' books.

INSPECTION. The mode of working up the dead-reckoning by computed
nautical tables. Also, a general examination or survey of all parts of a
sea or land force by an officer of competent authority.

INSTALMENT. A partial payment.

INSTANCE COURT. A department of the admiralty court, governed by the
civil law, t