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Inn   /ɪn/   Listen
noun
Inn  n.  
1.
A place of shelter; hence, dwelling; habitation; residence; abode. (Obs.) "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. Note: 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. "The miserable fare and miserable lodgment of a provincial inn."
3.
The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person; as, Leicester Inn. (Eng.)
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.
Inns of chancery (Eng.), colleges in which young students formerly began their law studies, now occupied chiefly bp attorneys, solicitors, 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.


verb
Inn  v. t.  
1.
To house; to lodge. (Obs.) "When he had brought them into his city And inned them, everich at his degree."
2.
To get in; to in. See In, v. t.


Inn  v. i.  (past & past part. inned; pres. part. inning)  To take lodging; to lodge. (R.)





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"Inn" Quotes from Famous Books



... "The people at the inn told us that there were gipsies in the neighbourhood," said the lady; "and oh, Ted! this is exactly the wood I dreamt of, except the purple ...
— Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men • Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
... encouraged to sit up late. As the eldest daughter of the inn showed me my night quarters, ...
— Two Summers in Guyenne • Edward Harrison Barker
... magnitude, that it puts travellers beside the usual road," and a Letter from Elias Ashmole to Sir Wm. Dugdale,[5] states, "that about a mile from hence (that is from Holywell Abbey, now the site of Caves Inn,) there is a tumulus raised in the very middle of the high way, which methought was worth observing." This tumulus, in an ancient deed, is called the Pilgrim's Low. It was removed in making the turnpike-road from ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 14, No. 381 Saturday, July 18, 1829 • Various
... Philip curtly. "I'll help you to your rumpus machine and back there in the village you will find an inn. My man will go ...
— Diane of the Green Van • Leona Dalrymple
... hats and shouted and cheered. Some of the little boys perched themselves on the branches of trees and the lamp-posts in order to get a better view, and I have been told that there was one poor woman who saw nothing at all, because her boy tried to climb up to an inn sign, where he dangled in such a dangerous position that his poor old mother had to stand with her back to the procession, holding on to his legs in a terrible state of anxiety ...
— The Sleeping Beauty • C. S. Evans


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