Lodge | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Lŏdge, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. (imp. & p. p. LODGED; p. pr. & vb. n. LODGING.) [O. Eng. logge, Fr. loger, O. Fr. logier, L. Lat. logiare, It. alloggiare, Sp. alojar. See infra.]

Sense 1. To set, lay, or deposit for keeping or preservation, for a longer or shorter time; as, the men lodged their arms in the arsenal.

Sense 2. To infix; to throw in; to settle; to place; to plant.

He lodged an arrow in a tender breast. Addison.

Sense 3. To fix in the heart, mind, or memory.

I can give no reason More than a lodged hate. Shak.

The memory can lodge a greater store of images than the senses can present at one time. Cheyne.

Sense 4. To afford a place for; to furnish with a temporary habitation; to provide with a transient abiding-place; hence, to harbor; to cover.

Every house was proud to lodge a knight. Dryden.

The deer is lodged; I have tracked her to her cover. Addison.

Sense 5. To beat down so as to entangle.

Though bladed corn be lodged, and trees blown down, Though castles topple on their warders’ heads. Shak.

To lodge an information, to make a complaint

Lŏdge, v. i.

verbintransitive

Sense 1. To reside; to dwell; to rest. And lodge such daring souls in little men. Pope. 2. To rest or dwell for a time, as for a night, a week, a month. Stay and lodge by me this night. Shak. 3. To fall down and become entangled, as the stalks of grain.

Lōdge, n.

noun

n. [O. Eng. loge, Fr. loge, Pr. lotja, Pg. loga, Sp. logia, lonja, It. loggia, from O. H. Ger. lauba, louba, laubja, loubja, L. Lat. laubia, N. H. Ger. laube, arbor, bower, from laub, foliage. Cf. LOBBY.]

Sense 1. A place in which one may lodge or find shelter; a retreat or refuge; as, (a.) A small house in a park or forest.

He and his lady both are at the lodge Upon the north side of this pleasant chase. Shak.

(b.) The house of the gate-keeper on a gentleman’s estate. (c.) A den or cave. (d.) A secret association, as of the Freemasons, Odd Fellows, and the like; also, the place in which they assemble. (e.) A box or stall at an opera-house.

Sense 2. A collection of objects lodged together. “The Maldives, a famous lodge of islands.” De Foe.