·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.
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.