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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



... prosecute our voyage, so that we were obliged to pass other four and twenty hours in this comfortable situation. Luckily Mr. R— found two acquaintances in the place; one a Franciscan monk, a jolly fellow; and the other a maestro di capella, who sent a spinnet to the inn, and entertained us agreeably with his voice and performance, in both of which accomplishments he excelled. The padre was very good humoured, and favoured us with a letter of recommendation to a friend of his, a professor in the university of Pisa. You would laugh to see ...
— Travels Through France and Italy • Tobias Smollett
... and she took up her abode at an inn; and her thoughts being all on her dear Proteus, she entered into conversation with the innkeeper, or host, as he was called, thinking by that means to learn ...
— Tales from Shakespeare • Charles and Mary Lamb
... the guests at the inn, "comes down no longer to the table d'hote!" "The pretty English girl," remarked the wiseacres, "does not even drive out on these days, and the doctor calls ...
— Vagabondia - 1884 • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... places Edward inquired at was the inn where the postchaise generally drove to from the house where the old dowager had obtained her carriage in the country; but there no trace was to be had. Next, the principal hotels were referred to, but as yet without success; when, as they turned into one of ...
— Handy Andy, Vol. 2 - A Tale of Irish Life • Samuel Lover
... guided them to the nearest inn and posting-house, and Stephen gave the order for the chaise as they passed through the yard. Maggie took no notice of this, and only said, "Ask them to show us into a room where ...
— The Mill on the Floss • George Eliot


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