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(), 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. 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 b Inn (n), v. i.[imp. & p. p.Inned (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. スポンサード リンク
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