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lodging |
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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