inn

noun

1. 1

   Any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink.

   [H]ow much more agreeable to himself to get into snug quarters in a chateau, [...] rather than take up with the miserable lodgement, and miserable fare of a country inn.

   One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.

2. 2

   A tavern.

3. 3

   One of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London, for students of the law barristers.

   the Inns of Court the Inns of Chancery Serjeants’ Inns

4. 4

   datedThe town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person.

   Leicester Inn

5. 5

   obsoleteA place of shelter; hence, dwelling, residence, abode.

   But nowe ſadde Winter welked hath the day, / And Phœbus weary of his yerely taſ-ke: / Yſtabled hath his ſteedes in lowlye laye / And taken vp his ynne in Fiſhes haſ-ke.

   Therefore with me ye may take vp your In / For this ſame night.

verb

1. 1

   obsoleteTo take lodging; to lodge or house oneself.

   But where do you intend to inn to-night?

   We inned at the signe of the Swan.

   I never innd in the Towne but once.

   John Welch, Cornish Carrier, who formerly Inn'd at the Mermaid in Exon, is now removed to the Bear-Inn.

2. 2

   obsoleteTo lodge or house (someone or something).

   I have but Inn'd my horse since, master Cockstone.

   These Inn'd themselves all Night in Knights-bridge Fields.

Forms

plural

inns

past tense

inned

past participle

inned

present participle

inning

third person singular

inns