(a) A temporary dwelling, lodgings; a house, room, or apartment for guests; (b) a public lodging and/or eating house; a hostelry, tavern; ~ keper, an innkeeper; (c) a military encampment; (d) a tent or booth.

(a) Lodgings in general; nimen (taken) ~, to procure lodgings (for sb.); (b) ben at ~, to lodge, dwell, stay (in or at a place); bidden ~, ask for hospitality; geten ~, find lodgings; nimen (taken) ~, find lodgings, stay (at a place, with sb.); his innes ar taken, he is lodged.

(a) A permanent dwelling, house, home; at ~, at home; (b) quarters, apartment; sekra man ~, infirmary; (c) the dwelling of a bird or beast; (d) fig. the womb, the grave, the body as the abode of the soul, heaven, Hades, a dwelling place in hell; (e) arthures ~, King Arthur's household, the knights of the Round Table.

(a) A residence hall for university students; -- only in names of specific halls; (b) an abode of lawyers and law students; one of the Inns of Court or of Chancery; (c) in various names of buildings and place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.303].