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Lod"de (ld'd), n. (Zoöl.) The capelin.

Lode (?), n. [AS. ld way, journey, fr. lðan to go. See Lead to guide, and cf. Load a burden.] 1. A water course or way; a reach of water.

Down that long, dark lode . . . he and his brother skated home in triumph.

C. Kingsley.

2. (Mining) A metallic vein; any regular vein or course, whether metallic or not.

Lode"man*age (?), n. [OE. lodemenage. Chaucer.] Pilotage. [Obs.]

Lode"-ship` (?), n. An old name for a pilot boat.

Lodes"man (?), n. Same as Loadsman. [Obs.]

Lode"star` (?), n. Same as Loadstar.

Lode"stone` (?), n. (Min.) Same as Loadstone.

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).

Lodge, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lodged (ljd); p. pr. & vb. n. Lodging (lj"ng).] 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.