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Spenser.

Lodging house, a house where lodgings are provided and let. -- Lodging room, a room in which a person lodges, esp. a hired room.

Lodg"ment (?), n. [Written also lodgement.] [Cf. F. logement. See Lodge, v.] 1. The act of lodging, or the state of being lodged.

Any particle which is of size enough to make a lodgment afterwards in the small arteries.

Paley.

2. A lodging place; a room. [Obs.]

3. An accumulation or collection of something deposited in a place or remaining at rest.

4. (Mil.) The occupation and holding of a position, as by a besieging party; an instrument thrown up in a captured position; as, to effect a lodgment.

Lod"i*cule (?), n. [L. lodicula. dim, of lodix, lodicis, a coverlet: cf. F. lodicule.] (Bot.) One of the two or three delicate membranous scales which are next to the stamens in grasses.

Loel"ling*ite (?), n. [So called from Lölling, in Austria.] (Min.) A tin-white arsenide of iron, isomorphous with arsenopyrite.

Loess (?), n. [G. löss.] (Geol.) A quaternary deposit, usually consisting of a fine yellowish earth, on the banks of the Rhine and other large rivers.

Loev"en's lar"va (?). [Named after the Swedish zoölogist, S. F. Löven, who discovered it.] (Zoöl.) The peculiar larva of Polygordius. See Polygordius.

Loffe (?), v. i. To laugh. [Obs.] Shak.

Loft (?), n. [Icel. lopt air, heaven, loft, upper room; akin to AS. lyft air, G. luft, Dan. loft loft, Goth. luftus air. Cf. Lift, v. & n. ] That which is lifted up; an elevation. Hence, especially: (a) The room or space under a roof and above the ceiling of the uppermost story. (b) A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.; as, an organ loft. (c) A floor or room placed above another; a story.

Eutychus . . . fell down from the third loft.

Acts xx. 9.

On loft, aloft; on high. Cf. Onloft. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Loft, a. Lofty; proud. [R. & Obs.] Surrey.

Loft"i*ly (?), adv. [From Lofty.] In a lofty manner or position; haughtily.

Loft"i*ness, n. The state or quality of being lofty.

Loft"y (?), a. [Compar. Loftier (?); superl. Loftiest.] [From Loft.] 1. Lifted high up; having great height; towering; high.

See lofty Lebanon his head advance.

Pope.

2. Fig.: Elevated in character, rank, dignity, spirit, bearing, language, etc.; exalted; noble; stately; characterized by pride; haughty.

The high and lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity.

Is. lvii. 15.

Lofty and sour to them that loved him not

. Shak.