Lodge

·noun A den or cave.

II. Lodge ·noun To drive to shelter; to track to covert.

III. Lodge ·noun A collection of objects lodged together.

IV. Lodge ·noun To lay down; to Prostrate.

V. Lodge ·noun The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.

VI. Lodge ·noun To cause to stop or rest in; to Implant.

VII. Lodge ·vi To fall or lie down, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.

VIII. Lodge ·vi To come to a rest; to stop and remain; as, the bullet lodged in the bark of a tree.

IX. Lodge ·noun To deposit for keeping or preservation; as, the men lodged their arms in the arsenal.

X. Lodge ·noun A shelter in which one may rest; as: (a) A shed; a rude cabin; a hut; as, an Indian's lodge.

XI. Lodge ·noun A small dwelling house, as for a gamekeeper or gatekeeper of an Estate.

XII. Lodge ·noun The meeting room of an association; hence, the regularly constituted body of members which meets there; as, a masonic lodge.

XIII. Lodge ·noun 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.

XIV. Lodge ·noun To give shelter or rest to; especially, to furnish a sleeping place for; to Harbor; to Shelter; hence, to receive; to Hold.

XV. Lodge ·vi 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.

XVI. Lodge ·noun 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.