Inn (?), n. [AS. in, inn,
house, chamber, inn, from AS. in in; akin to Icel. inni
house. See In.]
1. A place of shelter;
hence, dwelling; habitation; residence; abode. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Therefore with me ye may take up your inn
For this same night. Spenser.
2. A house for the lodging and entertainment
of travelers or wayfarers; a tavern; a public house; a
hotel.
&fist; 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. W. Irving.
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 by 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.
Inn (&ibreve;n), v. i. [imp.
& p. p. Inned (&ibreve;nd); p. pr. & vb.
n. Inning.] To take lodging; to lodge.
[R.] Addison.
Inn, v. t. 1. To
house; to lodge. [Obs.]
When he had brought them into his city
And inned them, everich at his degree.
Chaucer.
2. To get in; to in. See In,
v. t.
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