tautoousious (tatoosius)

[ taw great fire kept up all through the winter, with a kettle always full of boiling water; the cloth was not always of the cleanest; the forks were steel; in the evening there was always a company of those who supped for they dined early-on chops, steaks, sausages, oysters, and Welsh rabbit, of those who drank, those who smoked their long pipes, and those who sang. W. Besant, Fifty Years Ago, p. 160. To hunt a tavern foxt, to be drunk. Compare tavern hunting. Else he had little leisure time to waste, Or at the ale-house huff-cap ale to taste; Nor did he ever hunt a tavern fox. John Taylor , Old Parr (1635), (Davies.) =Syn. Inn , Tavern , Hotel , House. In the United States inn and tavern are rarely now popularly applied to places of public entertainment, except sometimes as quaint or affected terms; but in law tavern is sometimes used for any place of public entertainment where liquor is sold under license. Hotel is the general word, or, often, house as the name of a particular hotel.