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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Therefore with me ye may take up your inn
For this same night. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A house for the lodging and entertainment of travelers or wayfarers; a tavern; a public house; a hotel. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The miserable fare and miserable lodgment of a provincial inn. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person; as, Leicester Inn. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Inns of chancery (Eng.), colleges in which young students formerly began their law studies, now occupied chiefly bp attorn`ys, solocitors, 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Inned p. pr. & vb. n. Inning. ] To take lodging; to lodge. [ R. ] Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To house; to lodge. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

When he had brought them into his city
And inned them, everich at his degree. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To get in; to in. See In, v. t. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The internal organs of an animal collectively especially those in the abdominal cavity.
Syn. -- viscera. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. innatus; pref. in- in + natus born, p. p. of nasci to be born. See Native. ] 1. Inborn; native; natural; as, innate vigor; innate eloquence. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Metaph.) Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience; as, innate ideas. See A priori, Intuitive. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is an innate light in every man, discovering to him the first lines of duty in the common notions of good and evil. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

Men would not be guilty if they did not carry in their mind common notions of morality, innate and written in divine letters. Fleming (Origen). [ 1913 Webster ]

If I could only show, as I hope I shall . . . how men, barely by the use of their natural faculties, may attain to all the knowledge they have, without the help of any innate impressions; and may arrive at certainty without any such original notions or principles. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament; as, an innate anther. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

Innate ideas (Metaph.), ideas, as of God, immortality, right and wrong, supposed by some to be inherent in the mind, as a priori principles of knowledge. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cause to exit; to call into being. [ Obs. ] “The first innating cause.” Marston. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Naturally. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being innate. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Native. [ Obs. ] Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. innavigabilis : cf. F. innavigable. See In- not, and Navigable. ] Incapable of being navigated; impassable by ships or vessels. Drygen. -- In*nav"i*ga*bly, adv. [1913 Webster]