Stay and lodge by me this night. --Shak.
Something holy lodges in that breast. --Milton.
2. To fall or lie down, as grass or grain, when overgrown or
beaten down by the wind. --Mortimer.
3. To come to a rest; to stop and remain; as, the bullet
lodged in the bark of a tree.
Their lodges and their tentis up they gan bigge
[to build]. --Robert of
Brunne.
O for a lodge in some vast wilderness! --Cowper.
(b) A small dwelling house, as for a gamekeeper or
gatekeeper of an estate. --Shak.
(c) A den or cave.
(d) The meeting room of an association; hence, the
regularly constituted body of members which meets
there; as, a masonic lodge.
(c) The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
2. (Mining) 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}. --Raymond.
3. A collection of objects lodged together.
The Maldives, a famous lodge of islands. --De Foe.
4. 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.
{Lodge gate}, a park gate, or entrance gate, near the lodge.
See {Lodge}, n., 1
(b) .
Every house was proud to lodge a knight. --Dryden.
The memory can lodge a greater stone of images that
all the senses can present at one time. --Cheyne.
2. To drive to shelter; to track to covert.
The deer is lodged; I have tracked her to her
covert. --Addison.
3. To deposit for keeping or preservation; as, the men lodged
their arms in the arsenal.
4. To cause to stop or rest in; to implant.
He lodged an arrow in a tender breast. --Addison.
Though bladed corn be lodged, and trees blown down.
--Shak.
{To lodge an information}, to enter a formal complaint.