n. [ OE. loge, logge, F. loge, LL. laubia porch, gallery, fr. OHG. louba, G. laube, arbor, bower, fr. lab foliage. See Leaf, and cf. Lobby, Loggia. ] 1. A shelter in which one may rest; as: (a) A shed; a rude cabin; a hut; as, an Indian's lodge. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their lodges and their tentis up they gan bigge [ to build ]. Robert of Brunne. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A collection of objects lodged together. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Maldives, a famous lodge of islands. De Foe. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lodge gate, a park gate, or entrance gate, near the lodge. See Lodge, n., 1 (b). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OE. loggen, OF. logier, F. loger. See Lodge, n. ] 1. To give shelter or rest to; especially, to furnish a sleeping place for; to harbor; to shelter; hence, to receive; to hold. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every house was proud to lodge a knight. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

The memory can lodge a greater store of images than all the senses can present at one time. Cheyne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To drive to shelter; to track to covert. [ 1913 Webster ]

The deer is lodged; I have tracked her to her covert. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To deposit for keeping or preservation; as, the men lodged their arms in the arsenal. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To cause to stop or rest in; to implant. [ 1913 Webster ]

He lodged an arrow in a tender breast. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To lay down; to prostrate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Though bladed corn be lodged, and trees blown down. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To present or bring (information, a complaint) before a court or other authority; as, to lodge a complaint. [ PJC ]

To lodge an information, to enter a formal complaint. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Lodged p. pr. & vb. n. Lodging ] 1. 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. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Stay and lodge by me this night. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Something holy lodges in that breast. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fall or lie down, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind. Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To come to a rest; to stop and remain; to become stuck or caught; as, the bullet lodged in the bark of a tree; a piece of meat lodged in his throat. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. logeable. ] 1. That may be or can be lodged; as, so many persons are not lodgeable in this village. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Capable of affording lodging; fit for lodging in. [ R. ] “ The lodgeable area of the earth.” Jeffrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Her.) Lying down; -- used of beasts of the chase, as couchant is of beasts of prey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Lodgment. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The lodgepole pine..
Syn. -- shore pine, spruce pine, Pinus contorta. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A tall, narrow 2-needled pine (Pinus contorta) of the coastal Northwestern U. S., having a red to yellow-brown bark fissured into small squares and bearing egg-shaped cones.
Syn. -- shore pine, lodgepole pine, spruce pine, Pinus contorta. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who, or that which, lodges; one who occupies a hired room in another's house. [ 1913 Webster ]