inn

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.

A tavern.

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

The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person.

Leicester Inn

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.

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.

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.

Initialism of international nonproprietary name.