LODGE
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Lodge (lŏj), 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.
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Their lodges and their tentis up they gan bigge [to build].
Robert of Brunne.
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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.
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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.
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3. A collection of objects lodged together.
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The Maldives, a famous lodge of islands.
De Foe.
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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.
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Lodge gate, a park gate, or entrance gate, near the lodge. See Lodge, n., 1 (b).
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Lodge, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lodged (lŏjd); p. pr. & vb. n. Lodging (lŏj"ĭng).] 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.
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Stay and lodge by me this night.
Shak.
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Something holy lodges in that breast.
Milton.
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2. To fall or lie down, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind. Mortimer.
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3. To come to a rest; to stop and remain; to become stuck or caught; as, the bullet lodged in the bark of a tree; a piece of meat lodged in his throat.
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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.
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Every house was proud to lodge a knight.
Dryden.
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The memory can lodge a greater store of images than all the senses can present at one time.
Cheyne.
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2. To drive to shelter; to track to covert.
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The deer is lodged; I have tracked her to her covert.
Addison.
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3. To deposit for keeping or preservation; as, the men lodged their arms in the arsenal.
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4. To cause to stop or rest in; to implant.
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He lodged an arrow in a tender breast.
Addison.
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5. To lay down; to prostrate.
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Though bladed corn be lodged, and trees blown down.
Shak.
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6. To present or bring (information, a complaint) before a court or other authority; as, to lodge a complaint.
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To lodge an information, to enter a formal complaint.
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