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A public house where travelers and other transient guests are accomodated with rooms and meals; an inn; a hotel; especially, in modern times, a public house licensed to sell liquor in small quantities.

One who keeps a tavern. Chaucer. Camden.

A feasting at taverns. [Obs.] "The misrule of our tavernings." Bp. Hall.

The keeper of a tavern; also, a tippler. [Obs.]

A girl or woman who attends the customers of a bar, as in a tavern or beershop. A bouncing barmaid. W. Irving.

One who frequents the benches of a tavern; an idler. [Obs.]

h, properly, a branch of ivy (as sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself. If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 't is true that a good play needs no epilogue. Shak.

A tavern; a house where liquors are retailed. [Obs. as an English word.]

rsial writer; a controversialist. Some controverters in divinity are like swaggerers in a tavern. B. Jonson.

gingly. The fathers were ordered to decamp, and the house was once again converted into a tavern. Goldsmith.

ed from ships of all nations at equal rates of duty. -- Free public house, in England, a tavern not belonging to a brewer, so that the landlord is free to brew his own beer or purchase where he chooses. Simmonds. -- Free school. (a) A school to which pupils are admitted without discrimination and on an equal footing.…

A house for the lodging and entertainment of travelers or wayfarers; a tavern; a public house; a hotel.

pick Master Slender's purse Shak. He picks clean teeth, and, busy as he seems With an old tavern quill, is hungry yet. Cowper.

Of or pertaining to suburbs; inhabiting, or being in, the suburbs of a city. "Suburban taverns." Longfellow. Suburban villas, highway-side retreats, . . . Delight the citizen. Cowper.

To; unto; towards; -- used of material objects. Chaucer. Taverners until them told the same. Piers Plowman. He roused himself full blithe, and hastened them until. Spenser.

One who keeps a house of entertainment; a tavern keeper; an innkeeper. Shak.