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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Lodge  \Lodge\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Lodged};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Lodging}.] 
  1.  To  rest  or  remain  a  lodge  house,  or  other  shelter;  to 
  rest;  to  stay;  to  abide;  esp.,  to  sleep  at  night;  as  to 
  lodge  in  York  Street.  --Chaucer. 
 
  Stay  and  lodge  by  me  this  night.  --Shak. 
 
  Something  holy  lodges  in  that  breast.  --Milton. 
 
  2.  To  fall  or  lie  down  as  grass  or  grain,  when  overgrown  or 
  beaten  down  by  the  wind.  --Mortimer. 
 
  3.  To  come  to  a  rest;  to  stop  and  remain;  as  the  bullet 
  lodged  in  the  bark  of  a  tree. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Lodging  \Lodg"ing\,  n. 
  1.  The  act  of  one  who  or  that  which  lodges. 
 
  2.  A  place  of  rest,  or  of  temporary  habitation;  esp.,  a 
  sleeping  apartment;  --  often  in  the  plural  with  a  singular 
  meaning.  --Gower. 
 
  Wits  take  lodgings  in  the  sound  of  Bow.  --Pope. 
 
  3.  Abiding  place  harbor;  cover. 
 
  Fair  bosom  .  .  .  the  lodging  of  delight.  --Spenser. 
 
  {Lodging  house},  a  house  where  lodgings  are  provided  and  let 
 
 
  {Lodging  room},  a  room  in  which  a  person  lodges,  esp.  a  hired 
  room 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  lodging 
  n  1:  housing  collectively;  structures  in  which  people  are  housed 
  [syn:  {housing}] 
  2:  the  state  or  quality  of  being  lodged  or  fixed  even 
  temporarily:  "the  lodgment  of  the  balloon  in  the  tree" 
  [syn:  {lodgment},  {lodgement}] 
  3:  the  act  of  lodging 




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