Part 6617

<hw>Lode"*ship`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>An old name for a pilot boat.</def>

<h1>Lodesman</h1> <Xpage=865>

<hw>Lodes"man</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Same as <er>Loadsman</er>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Lodestar</h1> <Xpage=865>

<hw>Lode"star`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Same as <er>Loadstar</er>.</def>

<h1>Lodestone</h1> <Xpage=865>

<hw>Lode"stone`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Min.)</fld> <def>Same as <er>Loadstone</er>.</def>

<h1>Lodge</h1> <Xpage=865>

<hw>Lodge</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>loge</ets>, <ets>logge</ets>, F. <ets>loge</ets>, LL. <ets>laubia</ets> porch, gallery, fr. OHG. <ets>louba</ets>, G. <ets>laube</ets>, arbor, bower, fr. <ets>lab</ets> foliage. See <er>Leaf</er>, and cf. <er>Lobby</er>, <er>Loggia</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A shelter in which one may rest; as: <sd>(a)</sd> A shed; a rude cabin; a hut; <as>as, an Indian's <ex>lodge</ex></as>.</def> <i>Chaucer</i>.

<blockquote>Their <b>lodges</b> and their tentis up they gan bigge [to build]. <i>Robert of Brunne.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>O for a <b>lodge</b> in some vast wilderness! <i>Cowper.</i></blockquote>

<sd>(b)</sd> <def>A small dwelling house, as for a gamekeeper or gatekeeper of an estate.</def> <i>Shak</i>. <sd>(c)</sd> <def>A den or cave.</def> <sd>(d)</sd> <def>The meeting room of an association; hence, the regularly constituted body of members which meets there; as, a masonic <i>lodge</i>.</def> <sd>(c)</sd> <def>The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college</def>.

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Mining)</fld> <def>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 <altname>platt</altname>.</def>

<i>Raymond.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A collection of objects lodged together.</def>

<blockquote>The Maldives, a famous <b>lodge</b> of islands. <i>De Foe.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>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>as, the tribe consists of about two hundred <ex>lodges</ex>, that is, of about a thousand individuals</as>.</def>

<cs><col>Lodge gate</col>, <cd>a park gate, or entrance gate, near the lodge. See <er>Lodge</er>, <tt>n.</tt>, 1 <sd>(b)</sd>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Lodge</h1> <Xpage=865>

<hw>Lodge</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Lodged</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Lodging</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To rest or remain a lodge house, or other shelter; to rest; to stay; to abide; esp., to sleep at night; <as>as, to <ex>lodge</ex> in York Street</as>.</def>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<blockquote>Stay and <b>lodge</b> by me this night. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Something holy <b>lodges</b> in that breast. <i>Milton</i></blockquote>.

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To fall or lie down, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.</def>

<i>Mortimer.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To come to a rest; to stop and remain; <as>as, the bullet <ex>lodged</ex> in the bark of a tree</as>.</def>

<h1>Lodge</h1> <Xpage=865>

<hw>Lodge</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>loggen</ets>, OF. <ets>logier</ets>, F. <ets>loger</ets>. See <er>Lodge</er>, <tt>n.</tt> ]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To give shelter or rest to; especially, to furnish a sleeping place for; to harbor; to shelter; hence, to receive; to hold.</def>