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lodge |
6 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]: Lodge \Lodge\, n. [OE. loge, logge, F. loge, LL laubia porch, gallery, fr OHG. louba, G. laube, arbor, bower, fr lab foliage. See {Leaf}, and cf {Lobby}, {Loggia}.] 1. A shelter in which one may rest; as: a A shed; a rude cabin; a hut; as an Indian's lodge. --Chaucer. Their lodges and their tentis up they gan bigge [to build]. --Robert of Brunne O for a lodge in some vast wilderness! --Cowper. b A small dwelling house, as for a gamekeeper or gatekeeper of an estate. --Shak. c A den or cave. d The meeting room of an association; hence the regularly constituted body of members which meets there as a masonic lodge. c The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college. 2. (Mining) The space at the mouth of a level next the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; -- called also {platt}. --Raymond. 3. A collection of objects lodged together. The Maldives, a famous lodge of islands. --De Foe. 4. A family of North American Indians, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge, -- as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons; as the tribe consists of about two hundred lodges, that is of about a thousand individuals. {Lodge gate}, a park gate, or entrance gate, near the lodge. See {Lodge}, n., 1 b . From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Lodge \Lodge\, v. t. [OE. loggen, OF logier, F. loger. See {Lodge}, n. ] 1. To give shelter or rest to especially, to furnish a sleeping place for to harbor; to shelter; hence to receive; to hold Every house was proud to lodge a knight. --Dryden. The memory can lodge a greater stone of images that all the senses can present at one time. --Cheyne. 2. To drive to shelter; to track to covert. The deer is lodged; I have tracked her to her covert. --Addison. 3. To deposit for keeping or preservation; as the men lodged their arms in the arsenal. 4. To cause to stop or rest in to implant. He lodged an arrow in a tender breast. --Addison. 5. To lay down to prostrate. Though bladed corn be lodged, and trees blown down --Shak. {To lodge an information}, to enter a formal complaint. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: lodge n 1: a formal association of people with similar interests; "he joined a golf club"; "they formed a small lunch society"; "men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today" [syn: {club}, {society}, {guild}, {gild}, {order}] 2: a small (rustic) house used as a temporary shelter [syn: {hunting lodge}] 3: any of various native American dwellings [syn: {indian lodge}] 4: a hotel for travelers [syn: {hostel}, {hostelry}, {inn}] v 1: be a lodger; stay temporarily; "Where are you lodging in Paris?" 2: fix, force, or implant; "lodge a bullet in the table" [syn: {wedge}, {stick}, {deposit}] [ant: {dislodge}] 3: file a formal charge against; "The suspect was charged with murdering his wife" [syn: {charge}, {file}] 4: house temporarily, as a guest [syn: {accommodate}] From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Lodge, SC (town, FIPS 42280) Location: 33.06752 N, 80.95456 W Population (1990): 147 (69 housing units) Area: 8.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 29082 From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Lodge a shed for a watchman in a garden (Isa. 1:8). The Hebrew name _melunah_ is rendered cottage" (q.v.) in Isa. 24:20. It also denotes a hammock or hanging-bed.
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