資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Inn \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.