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.
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. --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.
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.