v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dislodged p. pr. & vb. n. Dislodging. ] [ OF. deslogier, F. déloger; pref. des- (L. dis-) + OF. logier, F. loger. See Lodge. ] 1. To drive from a lodge or place of rest; to remove from a place of quiet or repose; as, shells resting in the sea at a considerate depth are not dislodged by storms. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To drive out from a place of hiding or defense; as, to dislodge a deer, or an enemy. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Volscians are dislodg'd. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To go from a place of rest. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Where Light and Darkness in perpetual round
Lodge and dislodge by turns. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Dwelling apart; separation. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. forced removal from a position of advantage.
Syn. -- dislodgment. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. dislodgment. [ PJC ]

n. [ Cf. F. délogement, OF. deslogement. ] The act or process of dislodging, or the state of being dislodged. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. 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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

n. 1. The act of one who, or that which, lodges. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A place of rest, or of temporary habitation; esp., a sleeping apartment; -- often in the plural with a singular meaning. Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wits take lodgings in the sound of Bow. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Abiding place; harbor; cover. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fair bosom . . . the lodging of delight. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lodging house, a house where lodgings are provided and let. --
Lodging room, a room in which a person lodges, esp. a hired room. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ pl. of lodging{ 2 }. ] temporary living quarters.
Syn. -- diggings, digs, domiciliation, pad. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Written also lodgement. ] [ Cf. F. logement. See Lodge, v. ] 1. The act of lodging, or the state of being lodged. [ 1913 Webster ]

Any particle which is of size enough to make a lodgment afterwards in the small arteries. Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A lodging place; a room. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An accumulation or collection of something deposited in a place or remaining at rest. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mil.) The occupation and holding of a position, as by a besieging party; an instrument thrown up in a captured position; as, to effect a lodgment. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To lodge amiss. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To lodge again. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + lodge. ] To dislodge; to deprive of lodgment. Carew. [ 1913 Webster ]