Part 6618

<blockquote>Every house was proud to <b>lodge</b> a knight. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The memory can <b>lodge</b> a greater stone of images that all the senses can present at one time. <i>Cheyne.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To drive to shelter; to track to covert.</def>

<blockquote>The deer is <b>lodged</b>; I have tracked her to her covert. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To deposit for keeping or preservation; <as>as, the men <ex>lodged</ex> their arms in the arsenal</as>.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To cause to stop or rest in; to implant.</def>

<blockquote>He <b>lodged</b> an arrow in a tender breast. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To lay down; to prostrate.</def>

<blockquote>Though bladed corn be <b>lodged</b>, and trees blown down. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To lodge an information</col>, <cd>to enter a formal complaint.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Lodge"a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>logeable</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>That may be or can be lodged; <as>as, so many persons are not <ex>lodgeable</ex> in this village</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Capable of affording lodging; fit for lodging in.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark> " The <i>lodgeable</i> area of the earth."

<i>Jeffrey.</i>

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<hw>Lodged</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Her.)</fld> <def>Lying down; -- used of beasts of the chase, as <i>couchant</i> is of beasts of prey.</def>

<h1>Lodgement</h1> <Xpage=865>

<hw>Lodge"ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Lodgment</er>.</def>

<h1>Lodger</h1> <Xpage=865>

<hw>Lodg"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who, or that which, lodges; one who occupies a hired room in another's house.</def>

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<hw>Lodg"ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of one who, or that which, lodges.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A place of rest, or of temporary habitation; esp., a sleeping apartment; -- often in the plural with a singular meaning.</def>

<i>Gower.</i>

<blockquote>Wits take <b>lodgings</b> in the sound of Bow. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Abiding place; harbor; cover.</def>

<blockquote>Fair bosom . . . the <b>lodging</b> of delight. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Lodging house</col>, <cd>a house where lodgings are provided and let.</cd> -- <col>Lodging room</col>, <cd>a room in which a person lodges, esp. a hired room.</cd>