1. \Inn\, 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.
   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.
   

2. \Inn\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Inned}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Inning}.]
   To take lodging; to lodge. [R.] --Addison.
   

3. \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.
   

in the modern sense, unknown in the East. The khans or caravanserais, which correspond to the European inn, are not alluded to in the Old Testament. The "inn" mentioned in Ex. 4:24 was just the halting-place of the caravan. In later times khans were erected for the accommodation of travellers. In Luke 2:7 the word there so rendered denotes a place for loosing the beasts of their burdens. It is rendered "guest-chamber" in Mark 14:14 and Luke 22:11. In Luke 10:34 the word so rendered is different. That inn had an "inn-keeper," who attended to the wants of travellers.