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  Inn \Inn\ ([i^]n), 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.
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              Therefore with me ye may take up your inn
              For this same night.                  --Spenser.
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     2. A house for the lodging and entertainment of travelers or
        wayfarers; a tavern; a public house; a hotel.
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     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.
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                 The miserable fare and miserable lodgment of a
                 provincial inn.                    --W. Irving.
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     3. The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person;
        as, Leicester Inn. [Eng.]
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     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.
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     Inns of chancery (Eng.), colleges in which young students
        formerly began their law studies, now occupied chiefly bp
        attorn`ys, solocitors, 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.
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  Inn \Inn\ ([i^]n), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Inned ([i^]nd); p. pr.
     & vb. n. Inning.]
     To take lodging; to lodge. [R.] --Addison.
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  Inn \Inn\, v. t.
     1. To house; to lodge. [Obs.]
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              When he had brought them into his city
              And inned them, everich at his degree. --Chaucer.
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     2. To get in; to in. See In, v. t.
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