Inn
Inn (in) , noun
[Anglo-Saxon in, inn, house, chamber, inn, from Anglo-Saxon in in; akin to Icelandic inni house. See In.]
1.
A place of shelter; hence, dwelling; habitation; residence; abode. [Obsolete] — Chaucer
Therefore with me ye may take up your inn
For this same night.
2.
A house for the lodging and entertainment of travelers or wayfarers; a tavern; a public house; a hotel.
The miserable fare and miserable lodgment of a provincial inn.
As distinguished from a private boarding house, an inn is a house for the entertainment of all travelers of good conduct and means of payment, as guests for a brief period, not as lodgers or boarders by contract.
3.
The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person; as, Leicester Inn. [English]
4.
One of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London, for students of the law barristers; as, the Inns of Court; the Inns of Chancery; Serjeants' Inns.
Collocations (2)
Inns of chancery (Eng.) , colleges in which young students formerly began their law studies, now occupied chiefly bp attorn`ys, solocitors, etc.
Inns of court (Eng.) , the four societies of “students and practicers of the law of England” which in London exercise the exclusive right of admitting persons to practice at the bar; also, the buildings in which the law students and barristers have their chambers. They are the Inner Temple, the Middle Temple, Lincoln's Inn, and Gray's Inn.
Inn (in) , intransitive verb
To take lodging; to lodge. [Rare] — Addison
Inn , transitive verb
1.
To house; to lodge. [Obsolete]
When he had brought them into his city
And inned them, everich at his degree.
2.
To get in; to in. See In, transitive verb