Any of various buildings frequented or occupied by people but not necessarily or primarily used as… A building where public refreshment is…

In early use, A public house or taproom where wine was retailed; a dram-shop; in current use = public house, n. 2a.

A depiction or stylized representation of the sun, esp. as surrounded by rays. Also: an ornament, vessel, or other object having or incorporating…

A house where beer drawn from the tap is sold in small quantities; an ale-house; sometimes in connection with a brewery. Also, the taproom of an inn…

A house where intoxicating liquor is sold and drunk; an ale-house, a tavern.

In plural form, with singular or plural agreement, with singular reference. Scottish and Irish English (northern). An establishment which…

(a) A bushy branch of ivy; figurative a place of concealment or retirement. †(b) spec. A bush of ivy or a representation of it, placed outside a…

In Italy, or a country where Italian is spoken: an inn, hostelry, hotel; (later also) an Italian eating house or restaurant. Cf. trattoria, n.

An inn, public house, tavern, etc., where meals are provided at a fixed price; the room in such a building where this type of meal is provided. Now…

A Russian dram-shop or pot-house.

An obsolete doublet of the word tavern, n., variously used in the senses ‘shop, tavern, cellar, cupboard’.

A house where pots of ale or the like are served; a tavern, a public house.

An alehouse, a tavern, an inn, in allusion to the customary colour of the lattices of such establishments (see lattice, n. 1b). Also attributive.

a drinking-house, tavern.

A building whose principal business is the sale of alcoholic drinks to be consumed on the premises; a pub (pub, n.1), a tavern.

Hence, the tavern itself.

In Germany and German-speaking countries: a pub, an inn.

Bibbing, drinking; a bibbing-house.

A drinking house, a pot-house. (Now almost exclusively an alien word referring to France, etc.; but formerly somewhat naturalized.)

an ordinary (ordinary, n. 12c) in which gambling games are played.

colloquial. Short for public house, n. Cf. pub, n.1 archaic.

A place where food and drink is sold to be consumed on the premises; (esp. in early use) a public house, a tavern. Now somewhat rare.

attributive, as in bibbing-house (= tippling-house).

A shop or bar where spirituous liquor is sold in drams or small quantities.

A tavern, a public house; spec. (a) one where gill ale (cf. jill, n. compounds 1) is sold; (b) one where drinks are sold by the gill (gill, n.2 1).

a shop or tavern selling rum and other liquor; a saloon.

A tavern, small inn; a refreshment bar or room.

a dram-shop, public-house; also (Pugilistic slang) the mouth.

(a) a vault in which wine is stored (vault, n.1 2b); (b) a pretentious name for a public-house.

A public house, an inn.

In Spanish-speaking America: a grocery shop or tavern.

In Mexico: a shop, tavern, or bar selling pulque.

a drinking-shop.

an establishment in which rum and other alcoholic drinks are sold and drunk.

= Wirtshaus, n.

A place to get drunk in; a contemptuous appellation of a public-house or drink-shop.

A small tavern. Obsolete. rare.

A place for the supply of (intoxicating) drink.

an establishment in which rum and other alcoholic drinks are sold and drunk.

A house. Occasionally: spec. (a) a brothel; (b) a public house. Now rare.

A public house. slang.

British, Australian, and New Zealand. A pub.

A small German wine-bar or tavern. Cf. bierstube, n.

A public house.

(a) a public house, a tavern (now rare); (b) U.S. a brothel or meeting place for male homosexuals.

British, Australian, and New Zealand. A public house.

A public house.

= bierstube, n.

A very large public house; (now) spec. one (usually part of a chain) situated in a town or city centre and frequently having a dance floor or stage.