Emily Dickinson Lexicon

INN, n. [Sax. inn, probably from the Heb. and Ch. חנה, to dwell or to pitch a tent, whence Ch. חנות, an inn. Class Gn, No. 19.]

1. A house for the lodging and entertainment of travelers. In America, it is often a tavern, where liquors are furnished for travelers and others. There was no room for them in the inn. Luke ii.
2. In England, a college of municipal or common law professors and students; formerly, the town-house of a nobleman, bishop or other distinguished personage, in which he resided when he attended the court. Inns of court, colleges in which students of law reside and are instructed. The principal are the Inner Temple, the Middle Temple, Lincoln's Inn, and Gray's Inn. Inns of chancery, colleges in which young students formerly began their law studies. These are now occupied chiefly by attorneys, solicitors, &c. Encyc.