inn

noun

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. A tavern.
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. (British, dated)The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person.

   “Leicester Inn”

5. (obsolete)A 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.”

6. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of international nonproprietary name.

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete)To 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.”

   “I inned at the best house, the Star and Garter.”

2. (obsolete, transitive)To 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.”

name

1. A right tributary of the Danube in Switzerland, Austria and Germany.