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lodge

I. lodge, n.
    (lɒdʒ)
    Forms: 3–6 loge, logge, (4 loghe, loȝe, Sc. lug), 4–6 Sc. luge, (5 loigge, looge, 6 loige, Sc. ludge), 7–8 lodg, 5– lodge. pl. 4 logis, Sc. luggis, 4–5 loges, logges, 5 logez, loggen, loigges, loogez, 6 luges, -is. (See also logis.)
    [ME. loge, logge, a. OF. loge, loige arbour, summerhouse, hut (F. loge hut, cottage, box at a theatre, etc.) = Pr. lotja, Pg. loja, It. loggia (dial. lobia):—med.L. laubia, lobia (recorded in the sense ‘covered walk, cloister’: hence lobby), a. OHG. *laubja, later louppea, lauba, sheltered or shady place, booth, hut (glossing umbraculum, tempes, magalia, mappalia, proscenium, propola; MHG. loube, löube porch, balcony, hall; mod.G. laube arbour, summerhouse).
    The derivation of the Ger. word from OTeut. *lauƀo{supm} leaf is disputed by some scholars, on the ground that the sense ‘arbour’ is a mod. development from compounds like sommerlaube, gartenlaube. But the Latin-OHG. glosses, and the early examples of loge in OF., seem to show clearly that the sense ‘shelter of foliage’, though not evidenced in MHG., is the primary one. Cf. levesel.]
    1. a. A small house or dwelling, esp. a temporary one; a hut or booth; a tent, arbour, or the like. Now dial. in specific applications.

1290 Rolls of Parlt. I. 29/1 Logges in quibus piscatores possent hospitari. a 1300 Cursor M. 6192 Son be a mikel wodside Þai made þair loges [Gött. logis, Trin. logges] for to bide. 13.. Sir Beues (A.) 3622 Beues and Terri doun liȝte And wiþ here swerdes a logge piȝte. 1375 Barbour Bruce xix. 392 Tentis and luggis als thair-by Thai gert mak. c 1386 Chaucer Nun's Pr. T. 33 Wel sikerer was his crowyng in his logge, Than is a clokke or an abbey Orlogge. c 1400 Ywaine & Gaw. 2037 A loge of bowes sone he made. c 1400 Mandeville (Roxb.) xxvii. 125 Þe comouns..er all hird men and lyez þeroute in logez [F. gissent en tentis]. c 1450 Merlin 387 A grete flame of fire..ran ouer the loigges of hem in the hoste. 1523 Ld. Berners Froiss. I. xviii. 21 They cut downe bowes of trees to theyr swerdis to tye withall their horses, and to make them selfe lodges. 1575–6 Durham Depos. (Surtees) 278 In the plage tyme..when sick folkes had lodges maid upon the more. 1611 Bible Isa. i. 8 The daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers. 1667 Milton P.L. v. 377 So to the Silvan Lodge They came. 1748 H. Ellis Hudson's Bay 177 His People..had they been furnished with large Beaver Coats, and had built Lodges in the Woods [etc.]. 1784 Cowper Task i. 227, I call'd the low-roof'd lodge the Peasant's Nest. 1810 Scott Lady of L. i. xxvi, Here..Some chief had framed a rustic bower. It was a lodge of ample size. 1860 Dickens Uncomm. Trav. xl, Bricklayers often tramp, in twos and threes, lying by night at their ‘lodges’ which are scattered all over the country.

     b. A place of confinement; a cell, prison.

c 1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 307/279 Ore louerd after is deþe In harde logge him brouȝte And teide þane schrewe faste Inovȝ. c 1450 Cov. Myst. ii. (Shaks. Soc.) 29 In helle logge thou xalt be lokyn. 1526 Skelton Magnyf. 2362 Had ye not the soner ben my refuge, Of dampnacyon I had ben drawen in the luge. 1526 Tindale Acts xii. 7 A light shyned in the lodge. 1676 D'Urfey Mad. Fickle v. ii. (1677) 59 How now! What's here one going to fire the house? Away, away with him to the Lodge. 1704 Swift Tale Tub, Battle Bks. 236 Books of Controversy, being of all others, haunted by the most disorderly Spirits, have always been confined in a separate Lodge from the rest.

    c. A shed or out-house. dial.

1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Logium, (in old Records) a Hovel, or Out-house, still call'd a Lodge in Kent. 1887 Kentish Dial., Lodge, an outbuilding, a shed, with an implied notion that it is more or less of a temporary character. 1888 Fenn Dick o' the Fens 127 The lookers-on saw that the stable and the cart lodge were doomed. 1892 R. Stead Bygone Kent 201 ‘Lodge’ means a wood or toolshed. 1901 Daily Chron. 20 Dec. 5/1 The Member for Carnarvon in the clothes of the average constable would be, as they say in Kent, like ‘a tom-tit in a wagon-lodge’.

    2. A house in a forest or other wild place, serving as a temporary abode in the hunting season; now used of the solitary houses built, e.g. in the Highlands of Scotland, for the accommodation of sportsmen during the shooting season.

1465 in Paston Lett. III. 437 The pullyng downe of the logge of Heylesdon. 1470–85 Malory Arthur vii. xix. 242 There by was a grete lodge and there he alyghte to slepe. 1495 Act 11 Hen. VII, c. 33 §9 Keper of the Parke and of the Manoir or Loge there. c 1500 Paston Lett. III. 340 Writyn at the lodge in Lavenham the last day of Juylle. a 1586 Sidney Arcadia i. (1590) 12 He..retired himselfe, his wife, and children, into a certaine forrest..where in he hath builded two fine lodges. 1598 Shakes. Merry W. i. i. 115 Knight, you haue beaten my men, kill'd my deere, and broke open my Lodge. Fal. But not kiss'd your Keepers daughter? 1599Much Ado ii. i. 222, I found him heere as melancholy as a Lodge in a Warren. 1760–72 H. Brooke Foot of Qual. (1809) II. 36 If you will give yourself the trouble to inquire out my little lodge on the hill. 1900 Longm. Mag. Oct. 591 The tedium of endless rain and impenetrable darkness in a Highland lodge.

    3. A house or cottage, occupied by a caretaker, keeper, gardener, etc., and placed at the entrance of a park or at some place in the grounds belonging to a mansion; the room, ‘box’, or the like occupied by the porter of a college, a factory, etc.

1500–20 Dunbar Poems xlii. 76 Strangenes, quhar that he did ly, Wes brint in to the porter luge. 1504 Nottingham Rec. iii. 323 For reparacion of þe logge on þe est syde [of a bridge]. 1540 Coucher bk. of Selby II. 356 Unam domum sive le lodge erga portas ejusdem grangiæ. c 1630 Risdon Surv. Devon §293 (1810) 301 They had a..park, the very lodge whereof hath afforded dwelling to men of good worth. 1744 Ozell tr. Brantome's Sp. Rhodomontades 211 Having the Lodge of the Bridge of St. Vincent at their Back. 1798 C. Smith Yng. Philos. IV. 133 A lodge, where lived the widow of a huntsman,..gave entrance to this forest-like domain. 1827 Oxford Guide 27 Magdalene College, The Porter's Lodge is on the first right-hand corner of the entrance Court. 1840 Dickens Barn. Rudge xxxix, As they happened to be near the Old Bailey, and Mr. Dennis knew there were turnkeys in the lodge with whom he could pass the night. 1842 Tennyson Audley Court 16 We..cross'd the garden to the gardener's lodge. 1865 Trollope Belton Est. xxvi. 319 She passed through the lodges of the park entrance. 1867 [see 8].


    4. a. gen. A lodging, abode, esp. a temporary lodging-place, a place of sojourn; formerly often transf. a place to accommodate or hold something.

1571 Satir. Poems Reform. xxv. 129 To saue þis noble ludge [the Castle of Edinburgh]. 1575 Gascoigne Pr. Pleas. Kenilw. (1821) 37 Nor could I see that any spark of lust A loitering lodge with her breast could find. c 1590 Greene Fr. Bacon viii. (1630) D 3 b, If Phœbus..Come courting from the beauty of his lodge. 1594Selimus F 3 b, Witnesse these handlesse arme, Witnesse these emptie lodges of mine eyes. 1602 Marston Ant. & Mel. iv. Wks. 1856 I. 44 The soule itself gallops along with them, As chiefetaine of this winged troope of thought, Whilst the dull lodge of spirit standeth waste. 1618 R. Brathwait Good Wife, etc. E 7 b, Two empty Lodges haz he in his Head, Which had two Lights, but now his Eies be gone. 1719 Watts Hymns i. xliii, Earth is our lodge, and heaven our home. 1782 Cowper A Fable 25 [He] long had marked her [a raven's] airy lodge. 1867 F. W. H. Myers St. Paul (1898) 23 This my poor lodge, my transitory dwelling.

    b. A residence or hotel. (Freq. as the second element of house- or hotel-names.)

1818 Jane Austen Persuasion III. ii. 31 As to her young friend's health, by passing all the warm months with her at Kellynch-lodge, every danger would be avoided. Ibid. v. 80 Anne walked up..to the Lodge, where she was to spend the first week. 1854 Dickens Hard T. i. iii. 12 To his matter of fact home, which was called Stone Lodge, Mr. Gradgrind directed his steps. He had..built Stone Lodge. 1869 Bradshaw's Railway Manual XXI. 307 Directors... W. C. Stobart Esq., Etherley Lodge, near Bishop Auckland. 1953 A. Christie Pocket Full of Rye iv. 24 Call it a lodge, indeed! Yew Tree Lodge!.. The house was what he..would call a mansion. 1971 Author LXXXII. 173 In hotels and auto lodges he listens to many a late-night argument. 1972 Automobile Assoc. Members' Handbk. 1972–73 154/1 Linton Lodge, Linton Road [Oxford].

     5. Phr. to take one's lodge: to take up one's abode. (Cf. lodging vbl. n. 2.) Obs.

c 1475 Partenay 5168 Hermites Robes full faste lete doo make, In Arrygon toke hys logge and repair.

    6. The workshop in which a body of ‘freemasons’ worked (see freemason 1). Obs. exc. Hist.

1371 in Britton Hist. Metrop. York (1819) 80 Itte es ordayned..yat all ye Masonnes.. sall..be ilk a day..atte yaire werk in ye loge yat es ordayned to ye masonnes at wyrke inwith ye close..als arly als yai may see skilfully by day lyghte for till wyrke. c 1430 Freemasonry 280 The prevetyse of the chamber telle he no mon, Ny yn the logge whatsever they donn. Ibid. 133. 1483 Extracts Aberd. Reg. (1844) I. 39 It was appoyntit..betuix the masownys of the luge. 1483 Cath. Angl. 223/2 A Luge for masons, lapidicina, lapicidium. 1483–4 Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 415 Cum portacione eorundem [mason's tools] ad le Luge. 1870 L. Brentano Hist. Gilds iv. in Eng. Gilds (E.E.T.S.) p. cxliv, The ‘lodge’ itself of the architect was very similar to our factories; it consisted of one or more workshops in which the workmen worked together.

    7. Among Freemasons and some other societies: The place of meeting for members of a branch; hence, the members composing a branch; also, a meeting of a ‘lodge’ of freemasons, etc. grand lodge, the principal or governing body of the freemasons (and of some other societies), presided over by the grand-master. For Orange lodge see Orange2.

1686 Plot Staffordsh. 316 Into which Society when any are admitted, they call a meeting (or Lodge as they term it in some places) which must consist at lest of 5 or 6 of the Ancients of the Order. 1733 Bramston Man of Taste 196 Next Lodge I'll be Free-Mason. 1742 in Hone Every-day Bk. II. 525 They..are to guard the Lodge, with a drawn Sword. 1753 Scots Mag. Sept. 427/1 A body of gentlemen masons belonging to foreign lodges. 1797 Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) X. 625/1 It was this year [1720] agreed, that, for the future, the new grand-master shall be named and proposed to the grand lodge some time before the feast. 1813 Gen. Hist. in Ann. Reg. 93 Provisions were made for establishing district lodges [of Orangemen]: and..the masters of all regimental lodges were to make half-yearly returns..to the secretary of the grand lodge; and in these military lodges.. officers and privates were to meet on terms of equality. 1845 D. Jerrold Caudle Lect. viii. (1846) 26, I suppose you'll be going to what you call your Lodge every night, now? 1866 Lowell Seward-Johnson Reaction Pr. Wks. 1898 V. 318 Now joining a Know-Nothing ‘lodge’, now hanging on the outskirts of a Fenian ‘circle’. 1900 MacKenzie Guide to Inverness 46 The head-quarters of a lodge of Good Templars. 1969 in Halpert & Story Christmas Mumming in Newfoundland 181 The (Protestant) Society of United Fishermen..soon had no fewer than forty-two lodges. 1970 Britain: Official Handbk. (H.M.S.O.) xvi. 428 The basic unit of organisation in most British trade unions is the local branch (sometimes called a lodge). 1974 Socialist Worker 7 Dec. 8/3 And there were more than 30 other workplace units—such as chapels and lodges—represented.

    8. At Cambridge University, the residence of the head of a college.

1769 Gray in Corr. w. Nicholls (1843) 87 That Trinity Hall Lodge would be vacant..to receive Mrs. Nicholls and you. 1830 Bp. Monk Life Bentley 115 The dean..allowed the {pstlg}170 to remain in Bentley's hands..to be expended in purchasing furniture for the master's lodge. 1867 Contemp. Rev. IV. 529 The name ‘Lodgings’, as applied to the Master's House, is peculiar to Oxford. At Cambridge the word is ‘The Lodge’, or the Master's Lodge. At Oxford ‘The Lodge’ is simply the Porter's Lodge.

    9. The den or lair of an animal; ? now only of a beaver or an otter.

1567 J. Maplet Gr. Forest 6 Whilest that the Dragon is from home, these men bestrew his Lodge with certaine Graine. Ibid. 71 b, The Ant is called in Latine Formica, quasi micas ferens, carying her meale by crummes into hir Lodge. 1611 Cotgr., Reposée,..the lodge of a Stag, &c. 1744 A. Dobbs Hudson's Bay 40 He has seen fifteen [Beaver] of that Colour out of one Lodge or Pond. 1756 T. Amory Buncle (1825) I. 30 Before the beasts were roused from their lodges, or the birds had soared upwards. 1855 Longfellow Hiaw. Introd. 26 In the lodges of the beaver. 1897 Encycl. Sport I. 583/2 Holt, the lair of the otter... Other names for holt are Couch, Hover, Kennel, and Lodge.

    10. The tent of a North American Indian; a wigwam or tepee. Also, the number of Indians accommodated in one tent as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six.

1805 Pike Sources Mississ. (1810) 14 Having shot at some pidgeons, the report was heard at the Sioux lodges. 1807 P. Gass Jrnl. 45 Their lodges are about eighty in number, and contain about ten persons each. 1836 W. Irving Astoria II. 204 They came to two lodges of Shoshonies. 1839 Marryat Diary Amer. Ser. i. I. 183 Wandering among the Indian Lodges (wigwams is a term not used now-a-days), I heard a sort of flute. 1855 Longfellow Hiaw. xvi. 12 By the shining Big-Sea-Water Stood the lodge of Pau-Puk-Keewis. 1859 Marcy Prairie Trav. v. 141 The usual tenement of the prairie tribes..is the Comanche lodge, which is made of eight straight peeled poles about twenty feet long, covered with hides or cloth. 1892 W. Pike North. Canada 24 Four deerskin lodges made our encampment.

     11. A collection of objects ‘lodged’ or situated close to each other. Obs. rare.

1720 De Foe Capt. Singleton xiii. (1840) 229 The Maldives, a famous lodge of islands.

    12. Rendering Romanic etymological equivalents. a. = loggia. Obs.

1613–39 I. Jones in Leoni Palladio's Archit. (1742) II. 42 This Cornice is 1/8 part from the Lodge to the top of it. 1813 Gentl. Mag. LXXXIII. 226/1 Royal Military Hospital, Chelsea... Dwarf walls, having cornices, in succession, containing small door-ways. Two lodges, right and left, carry on the line, containing four compartments..each... Grounds to the dwarf-walls and lodges, brick; dressings, stone.

    b. = loge2 2. rare.

1730 A. Gordon Maffei's Amphith. 320 A Round of large Covered Lodges, in which a great number of people were contained;..the Roofs of these Lodges were under the great Windows..in the fourth Story of the Coliseum. 1868 Browning Ring & Bk. v. 897 Where the theatre lent its lodge..Pompilia needs must find herself Launching her looks forth.

    c. [? = Pg. loja.] A storage room for wine.

1880 Vizetelly Facts abt. Port, etc. 126 We..pass through the sample and tasting rooms into the lodges. Ibid. 130 The Villa Nova wine-lodges. 1895 Westm. Gaz. 5 Apr. 1/3 We have thousands of pipes of wine at Oporto, and the lodges cover acres of ground.

    13. Mining. a. ‘A subterraneous reservoir for the drainage of the mine, made at the pit bottom, in the interior of the workings, or at different levels in the shaft’ (Gresley Coal-mining Gloss. 1883).
    b. A room or flat adjoining the shaft, for discharging ore, etc.

1881 in Raymond Mining Gloss.


    14. A reservoir of water for mill purposes. local.

1853 Gentl. Mag. Feb. 191/1 [In the neighbourhood of Bury, Lancashire] two reservoirs..in the village of Elton, forming a ‘lodge,’..for the accumulation from three narrow streams rising at Cockey Moor. 1891 Oldham Microsc. Soc. Jrnl. May 101 Bad smells arise from our lodges.

    15. attrib. and Comb., as lodge-door, lodge-keeper, lodge-man, lodge-room; (sense 7) lodge-meeting, lodge official, lodge room; (sense 10) lodge-cover, lodge-covering, lodge-fire, lodge-skin, lodge-trail; lodge-book, a book recording the doings of a masonic lodge; lodge-gate, the gate of a park or the like at which there is a lodge.

1738 J. Anderson (title) The New Book of the Constitutions of the..Free and Accepted Masons, containing their History,..collected..by Order of the Grand Lodge from their old Records..and *Lodge-Books.


1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds ix. 137 The former [sc. buffaloes] furnished them with food, clothing, *lodge⁓covers,..and a dozen other conveniences.


1847 F. Parkman in Knickerbocker XXX. 234 The squaws of each lazy warrior had made him a shelter..by stretching..the corner of a *lodge-covering upon poles.


13.. E.E. Allit. P. B. 784 As Loot in a *loge dor lened hym alone. 1542 Ludlow Churchw. Acc. (Camden) 12 For a new key to the loige dore. 1854 Mrs. Gaskell North & S. xv, The lodge-door was like a common garden-door.


1837 W. Irving Capt. Bonneville I. 111 Knots of gamblers will assemble before one of their *lodge fires, early in the evening.


1838 Dickens O. Twist lii, At the *lodge gate. 1899 R. Kipling Stalky i. 15 They could enter by the Lodge-gates on the upper road.


1854 Mrs. Gaskell North & S. xv, The *lodge-keeper admitted them into a great oblong yard, on one side of which were offices for the transaction of business.


1892 Daily News 8 Sept. 6/4 Often in my capacity as *lodge-man have I seen a poor woman breathlessly running in order to be in the mill before ‘lock⁓out’.


1903 C. T. Brady Bishop iii. 47 Most of the Churches have a week-night prayer-meeting, and the other nights are taken up with *lodge meetings. 1926 Scribner's Mag. Sept. 327/2 A lodge meeting to the average negro is one of the big events of the week. 1933 J. Buchan Prince of Captivity ii. i. 147 The weekly lodge meetings.


1909 Daily Chron. 30 Dec. 1/4 The fifteen *lodge officials and delegates prosecuted for offences against the Industrial Disputes Act. 1974 Times 6 Dec. 3/1 All lodge officials are completely vindicated.


1856 Kane Arct. Expl. I. xxxi. 421 From our *lodge-room to the forward timbers every thing is clear already. 1864 A. McKay Hist. Kilmarnock 163 The lodge-room was in Croft Street. 1911 J. C. Lincoln Cap'n Warren's Wards vi. 88 I'm more used to lodge rooms than I am to clubs.


a 1831 J. Smith Jrnl. in M. S. Sullivan Trav. J. Smith (1934) 4 They [sc. Indian lodges] do not smoke except from a sudden change of wind and then no longer than it takes a squaw to spread a smoke wing of the *Lodge skin. 1891 Century Mag. Mar. 776 We had already devoured..a small sack made of smoked lodge skin.


1845 J. C. Frémont Rep. Exploring Expedition 114 We resumed our journey..following an extremely good *lodge-trail.

II. lodge, v.
    (lɒdʒ)
    Forms: 3–5 logge(n, 5 lodgyn, loyge, loigge, 5–6 Sc. luge, 5–7 loge, 6–7 Sc. louge, ludge, 7 lodg, 5– lodge.
    [ad. OF. logier (mod.F. loger), f. loge: see lodge n.]
    I. trans.
     1. To place in tents or other temporary shelter; to encamp, station (an army). Often refl. to pitch one's tent, to encamp, take up a position; also in pass., to be encamped or stationed. Obs.

a 1225 Ancr. R. 264 Metati sumus castra juxta lapidem adjutorii..we beoð ilogged her bi þe, þet ert ston of help. Ibid., Ismeles folc com & loggede him bi þe stone of help. c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 182 Comen ere þe Inglis with pauilloun & tent, & loged þam right wele ouer alle þer þam þink. c 1400 Destr. Troy 10745 Pavilions and pure tenttes [þai] pightyn aboute, And þere logget hom to lenge, while hom lefe thoght. a 1400–50 Alexander 1952 A Messangere..him tellis, Þat Alexander was at hand & had his ost loygid A-pon þe streme of Struma. c 1450 Merlin 277 Ther-of herde Gawein..that the saisnes were thus logged a-boute Bredigan. 1523 Ld. Berners Froiss. I. cxciv. 231 The watchmen of saynt Quintyne..knewe that their ennemyes were natte farre lodged thense. 1568 Grafton Chron. II. 271 At night they returned and sayde, howe that the Englishmen were lodged in the fieldes. 1598 R. Grenewey Tacitus, Ann. xii. vii. (1622) 163 [Claudius] wrot vnto P. Attilius Histrus..to lodge a Legion, and all the aid he could leuy in the prouince, on the banke of Danubium.

     b. To shelter with foliage. Obs. rare.

c 1400 Destr. Troy 1140 Lurke vnder leuys logget with vines. Ibid. 1167 Lurkyt vnder lefe-sals loget with vines.

    2. To provide with sleeping quarters or temporary habitation; to receive into one's house for the night; to entertain, show hospitality to (guests). Also, in wider sense (cf. 7 b), to provide with a habitation; to place as a resident in a building; also in pass., to be (well or ill) accommodated with regard to dwelling.

13.. Coer de L. 6371 They are loggyd in this toun, I wyll goo, and aspye ther roun. c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints xxv. (Julian) 624 A place quhare þat a monk lugyt wes. c 1386 Chaucer Nun's Pr. T. 171 They ne founde as muche as o cotage, In which they bothe myghte logged bee. a 1420 Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 4229 The fader logged him..In a chambre next to his joynyng. 1453 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 211 [They came] to Bedlum..Where poorly loggyd they fond the kyng of pees. 1526 Tindale Matt. xxv. 35, I was herbroulesse and ye lodged me. 1535 Coverdale Heb. xiii. 2 Be not forgetfull to lodge straungers. 1591 Shakes. Two Gent. iii. i. 35, I nightly lodge her in an vpper Towre, The key whereof, my selfe haue euer kept. 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scotland I. 103 With glade wil and frilie thay vse to luge kin, freind and acquaintance, ȝe and strangers that turnes in to thame. 1622 Bacon Hen. VII, 118 When hee was come to the Court of France, the King..stiled him by the name of the Duke of Yorke; lodged him, and accommodated him, in great State. 1714 Swift Imit. Hor. Sat. ii. vi. 3 I've often wish'd that I had..A handsome House to lodge a Friend, A River at my garden's end. 1764 Burn Poor Laws 233 It is a kind of insult upon poverty, to go about to lodge poor people in a superb edifice. 1766 Smollett Trav. I. viii. 139, I..pay at the rate of two-and-thirty livres a day, for which I am very badly lodged, and but very indifferently entertained. 1840 Dickens Old C. Shop xxxi, This young lady was lodged for nothing. 1841 Lytton Nt. & Morn. i. iii, You lodge your horses more magnificently than yourself. 1845 McCulloch Taxation i. iii. (1852) 105 The latter are probably better fed, and they certainly are better clothed and better lodged than at any former period.


transf. c 1325 Song, Know Thyself 82 in E.E.P. (1862) 132 Preye we to god vr soules enspire Or we bene logged in eorþe lowe. c 1645 Habington Surv. Worcs. in Worcs. Hist. Soc. Proc. i. 95 Sir Humfrey Stafford..maryed Elianor..lodged with him in thys sepulchre.

    b. refl. To establish oneself, take up one's quarters. In early use, = sense 7.

c 1375 Barbour Bruce ii. 304 In the woud thaim logyt thai; The thrid part went to the forray. c 1400 Mandeville (1839) xviii. 193 There ben also in that Contree a kynde of Snayles, that ben so grete, that many persones may loggen hem in here Schelles. c 1489 Caxton Sonnes of Aymon v. 132 Reynawde sayd to his folke, ‘go we lodge vs’. a 1533 Ld. Berners Huon lxxxi. 246, I came & lodged me in the abbey. 1632 J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Eromena 108 They lodged themselves in Terranova as well as they could. 1711 Lond. Gaz. No. 4899/2 The Enemy..quitted the Bastion.., where our Men..lodg'd themselves, without any Opposition.

     c. fig. To harbour, entertain (feelings, thoughts). Obs.

1583 Babington Commandm. vi. (1637) 52 That say Racha, or thou foole to their brethren, that is, that..shew their hearts..to lodge an unlawfull affection towards them. 1593 Shakes. Rich. III, ii. i. 65 If euer any grudge were lodg'd betweene vs. 1623 Penkethman Handf. Hon. iv. §43 Lodge not suspect, lest thou still wretched be. a 1708 Beveridge Thes. Theol. (1711) III. 20 Dost thou not often lodge vain thoughts?

    d. Of a chamber, house, etc.: To serve as a lodging or habitation for. Often transf. and fig. of things: To contain, be the receptacle of; in pass., to be contained in something.

c 1449 Pecock Repr. v. vii. 521 Whi..ben so manye ostries clepid innes for to logge gistis, thouȝ in fewer of hem alle gestis myȝten be loggid? 1592 Davies Immort. Soul xxii. iii, The Brain doth lodge the Pow'rs of Sense. 1593 Shakes. Lucr. 1530 Saying, some shape in Sinons was abusd; So faire a forme lodg'd not a mind so ill. a 1626 Bacon New Atl. (1900) 6 And the other 15 Chambers were to lodge us two and two together. 1715 Cheyne Philos. Princ. Nat. Relig. ii. 63 The Memory [can] lodge a greater store of Images, than all the Senses can present at one time. 1729 Woodward Nat. Hist. Fossils i. I. 182 Mundick Grains..shot into several Figures; lodg'd part of them in a blueish grey, and part in a brown Stone. 1747 Berkeley Tarwater in Plague Wks. 1871 III. 485 The fine oil, in which the vegetable salts are lodged. 1795 Herschel in Phil. Trans. LXXXV. 353 As tenons of any kind, in an apparatus continually to be exposed to the open air, will bring on a premature decay, by lodging wet. 1826 Lamb Elia Ser. ii. Pop. Fallacies ix, Perhaps the mind of man is not capacious enough..to lodge two puns at a time. 1830 Knox Béclard's Anat. 266 The conformation of the skull, and that of the vertebral canal depend greatly upon that of the nervous centre which they lodge. 1835 S. Smith Philos. Health I. v. 216 The size of the spinal canal, accurately adapted to that of the spinal cord, which it lodges and protects. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus lxvii. 4 Once, when his home, time was, lodged him, a master in years.

    e. To receive into, or keep as an inmate of, one's house for payment; to have as a lodger.

1741 tr. D'Argens' Chinese Lett. i. 3 Come along with me, Sir, you shall be very welcome. I commonly lodge all Gentlemen that come to this Place. 1833 H. Martineau Vanderput & S. vi. 90 A peasant who had undertaken to lodge the workmen. 1884 N. Hall in Chr. Commonw. 6 Nov. 43/4 Lincoln, in early life, was so poor that he asked a shoe⁓maker to lodge him.

     f. ? To lay to rest (fig.). Obs. rare.

a 1658 Cleveland May Day ix, Then crown the Bowl, let every Conduit run Canary, till we lodge the reeling Sun.

    3. To place, deposit. a. To put and cause to remain in a specified place of custody or security.

1666 Pepys Diary 9 Aug., Money, to enable me to pay Sir G. Carteret's 3000l, which he hath lodged in my hands. 1690 Locke Hum. Und. ii. x. §7 (1825) 88 In this..viewing again the ideas that are lodged in the memory, the mind is oftentimes more than barely passive. 1710–11 Swift Jrnl. to Stella 25 Mar., I wish..Mrs. Brent could contrive to put up my books in boxes, and lodge them in some safe place. 1713 Derham Phys.-Theol. v. vi. (1714) 309 How could we plant the curious and great Variety of Bones..necessary..to the Support, and every Motion of the Body? where could we lodge all the Arteries and Veins to convey Nourishment? 1802 M. Edgeworth Moral T. (1816) I. 212 Their orders were..to lodge count L. in..a state prison. 1810 Naval Chron. XXIV. 459 A reward of Six Dollars will be given for apprehending and lodging him in the Cage. 1827 Roberts Voy. Centr. Amer. 52 His object was to lodge supplies of goods..at various trading depots. 1849 Macaulay Hist. Eng. iv. I. 623 Soon after Monmouth had been lodged in the Tower, he was informed that [etc.]. 1866 Crump Banking ix. 177 The issue of receipts by the goldsmiths for money lodged in their hands. 1871 B. Stewart Heat §70 A new standard and four authorized copies were made and lodged at the office of the Exchequer. 1882 C. Pebody Eng. Journalism xx. 149 Messrs. Stevenson and Salt are my bankers. Lodge {pstlg}15,000 there to my credit, and within a week you shall have a daily evening paper.

     b. ‘To place in the memory’ (J.). Obs.

1622 Bacon Hen. VII, 37 Which cunning the King would not vnderstand, though he lodged it, and noted it in some particulars, as his manner was.

    c. To deposit in court or with some appointed officer a formal statement of (an information, complaint, objection, etc.). Hence, in popular language, to bring forward, allege (an objection, etc.).

1708 Ld. Sunderland in Ellis Orig. Lett. ser. ii. IV. 250 Several merchants on the other side have lodged a Petition against him. 1754–62 Hume Hist. Eng. (1806) IV. lvii. 354 The impeachment which the king had lodged against him. 1802 M. Edgeworth Moral T. (1822) I. xv. 122 A magistrate, with whom informations had been lodged. 1885 Cave in Law Times Rep. LII. 627/2 The objection which has been lodged against this appeal is necessarily fatal. 1888 Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. xxxvi. 20 An American may..never be reminded of the Federal Government except when he..lodges a complaint against the Post-Office. 1891 Law Times XCII. 106/2 Persons who have any interest in land which is sought to be registered can lodge a caution with the registering officer.

    d. To vest, cause to ‘reside’, or represent as residing, in a specified person or thing; to place (power, etc.) with or in the hands of a person.

1670 Walton Life of Hooker 40 Acts of Parliament, intending the better preservation of the church-lands, by recalling a power which was vested in others to sell or lease them, by lodging and trusting the future care and protection of them only in the crown. a 1677 Hale Prim. Orig. Man. ii. iii. 142 The Heathen Authors allow not above 1400 years at most for the continuance of the Assyrian Monarchy, and lodge the Original of it in Belus. 1712 Berkeley Pass. Obed. §3 Wks. 1871 III. 108 Neither shall I consider where or in what persons the supreme or legislative power is lodged in this or that government. a 1715 Burnet Own Time (1724) I. 364 So he lodged it [viz. a dispute] now where he wished it might be, in a point of prerogative. 1752 Young Brothers iv. i. Wks. 1757 II. 260 When all our hopes are lodg'd in such expedients, 'Tis as if poison were our only food. 1752 Hume Ess. v. Indep. Parl. (1768) 31 The power of the Crown is always lodged in a single person. 1804 Wellesley in Owen Desp. 277 The Peishwa's power was lodged by another train of events in the hands of Scindiah. 1817 Jas. Mill Brit. India III. vi. i. 52 The powers which were lodged with the Board of Control..were lodged without danger. 1818 Cruise Digest VI. 381 And they could not take in that manner but by lodging an estate tail in George Grew. 1855 Prescott Philip II, ii. v. (1857) 251 Philip, on leaving the country, lodged the administration nominally in three councils. 1868 E. Arber Introd. to Selden's Table-T. 11 Selden lodges the Civil Power of England in the King and the Parliament. 1869 Haddan Apost. Succ. iii. (1879) 62 There can be no ministry save where the Apostles have lodged the power of appointing one. 1888 Bryce Amer. Commw. II. lii. 314 The powers thus taken away from the common council, are ordinarily lodged with boards made up of the higher city officials.

    e. To get (a thing) into the intended place; esp. to succeed in causing (a weapon, a blow) to fall and take effect where it is aimed.

1611 Cotgr. s.v. Escusson, Enter en escusson, to lodge that bud in the bark of a tree by an incision..of the forme of a T. 1680 Otway Orphan i. i. (1691) 3 When on the brink the foaming Boar I met, And in his side thought to have lodg'd my spear. 1713 Addison Cato ii. iii, O could my dying hand but lodge a sword in Cæsar's bosom. 1777 Sheridan Sch. for Scandal v. ii, Sir Peter is dangerously wounded..By a bullet lodged in the thorax. 1853 Lytton My Novel xii. 50, I was shot at in cold blood, by an officer..who lodged a ball in my right shoulder.

    f. Mil. (a) To point, level (cannon). (b) To place (the colours) in position. (c) to lodge arms (see quot. 1867).

1627 Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. xiii. 60 Keepe your loufe and loge your ordnance againe. 1783 Encycl. Brit. 8968/1 Signals by the Drum. Two long rolls, To bring or lodge the colours. 1802 C. James Milit. Dict., To lodge arms. 1867 Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 452 Lodge arms, the word of command to an armed party preparatory to their breaking off.

    g. To throw (something) so that it ‘lodges’ or is caught in its fall (cf. sense 8); to cause to ‘lodge’ or be intercepted; (of a current, etc.) to deposit in passing.

1606 Shakes. Ant. & Cl. iv. xii. 45 Let me lodge Licas on the hornes o' th' Moone. 1677 A. Yarranton Eng. Improv. 41 The Stones near the Shore lay so great and thick, that they were the occasion of lodging the Sands by them. 1808 Pike Sources of Mississ. (1810) iii. 221 This crate or butment was filled with stone, in which the river had lodged sand, clay, &c. until it had become of a tolerable firm consistency. 1863 Geo. Eliot Romola i. (1880) 21 He wore a close jerkin, a skull-cap lodged carelessly over his left ear, as if it had fallen there by chance.

     h. To set or fasten in a socket or the like. Obs.

1726 Swift Gulliver iii. iii. 38 A Groove twelve Inches deep, in which the Extremities of the Axle are lodged. 1748 Anson's Voy. iii. v. 341 The heel of the yard is always lodged in one of the sockets. 1776 G. Semple Building in water 134 Let a Coffer..be made..and lodged upon any hard level Ground. 1792 Falconer Shipwr. i. (ed. 8) 793 They lodge the bars, and wheel the engine round. 1825 E. Hewlett Cottage Comf. v. 38 A scraper at each door might be furnished at no expense, and very little trouble; a bit of iron hoop lodged into two strong sticks.

    4. To discover the ‘lodge’ of (a buck).

1576 Turberv. Venerie 239 We herbor and unherbor a Harte, we lodge and rowse a Bucke. 1640 tr. Verdere's Rom. of Rom. ii. 155, I would not walk thus with a purpose to lie all night in the wood, if it were not to lodge him Deer which to morrow he means to hunt. 1713 Addison Cato iv. ii, The deer is lodg'd. I've track'd her to her covert. 1741 Compl. Fam.-Piece ii. i. 292 Nor is there required that Skill in lodging a Buck, as there is in harbouring a Stag. 1823 Scott Peveril vii, I thought of going to lodge a buck in the park, judging a bit of venison might be wanted.

     b. transf. ? To track (a fugitive) to his refuge.

a 1625 Beaum. & Fl. Bonduca iv. i, Are those come in yet that pursu'd bold Caratach? Not yet, Sir, for I think they mean to lodge him; take him I know they dare not.

    5. To throw down on the ground, lay flat. Now only of rain or wind: To beat down crops. (Cf. ledge, lay v.1 1 c.)

1593 Shakes. Rich. II, iii. iii. 162 Wee'le make foule Weather with despised Teares: Our sighes, and they, shall lodge the Summer Corne. 1605Macb. iv. i. 55. 1621 Sandys Ovid's Met. i. (1626) 7 The Corne is lodg'd, the Husband-men despaire. 1653 Milton Ps. vii. 18 Let th' enemy..tread My life down to the earth and roul In the dust my glory dead, In the dust and there out spread Lodge it with dishonour foul. 1760 Brown Compl. Farmer ii. 72 If rye or wheat be lodged, cut it though it be not thorough ripe. 1763 Museum Rusticum I. 10 Land may be made too rich for flax, which will undoubtedly lodge it, that is, occasion its prematurely lying flat to the ground. 1843 Zoologist I. 297 Hedge-row trees..are a great nuisance, blighting the hedges, lodging the crops..and harbouring the plundering ring-dove. 1897 Evesham Jrnl. 24 July (E.D.D.), Winter oats lodged by the little rain.

    II. intr.
     6. To encamp. Obs.

13.. K. Alis. 4098 With his ost he after ferd, And there he [Alisaunder] loggith anon, Ther Darie hadde beon erst apon. c 1440 Lonelich Grail xliv. 418 Whanne the kyng was Comen to-fore þat Castel, he gan to loggen bothe faire & wel. c 1500 Melusine xxxvi. 281 They concluded that on the morne theire oost shuld lodge a leghe nygh to the Sarasyns. 1603 Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 1251 With his armie..encamped in the self same place where the Turks armie had but the yere before lodged.

    7. To remain or dwell temporarily in a place; esp. to pass the night, sleep. Now rare.

13.. E.E. Allit. P. B. 807 Þay wolde lenge be long naȝt & logge þer-oute. c 1400 Mandeville (Roxb.) xxv. 118 Þare þer þai schall luge ilk a nyght, þai schall fynd before þam redily puruayd all maner of thinges. c 1470 Henry Wallace i. 287 In Dunfermlyn thai lugyt all that nycht. ? c 1475 Squyr lowe Degre 180 Yf ye may no harbroughe se, Than must ye lodge under a tre. a 1533 Ld. Berners Huon lxviii. 235 They lodged in the strete next to the palays in a good hostrye. a 1548 Hall Chron., Edw. IV 228 For at the gates entered but a few that were apoynted, the remnant lodged in the feldes. 1593 Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, i. i. 80 Did he so often lodge in open field, In Winters cold, and Summers parching Heate, To conquer France. 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. II. 124 That nycht he ludget with ane Thomas Leslie, quha maid him a saft bed, with fair couerings dekit with al decore. 1597 A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg 53 b, The poore souldiours, who being wounded, must lodge on the earth. 1611 Bible Job xxiv. 7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they haue no couering in the cold. 1650 Jer. Taylor Holy Living ii. §6. 139 Here thou art but a stranger travelling to thy Countrey..; it is therefore a huge folly to be much afflicted because thou hast a lesse convenient Inne to lodge in by the way. 1652–62 Heylin Cosmogr. ii. (1677) 339 The extreme coldness of the Country..is so fierce that generally they lodg between two Feather-beds. 1667 Milton P.L. iv. 790 Ithuriel and Zephon..Search through this Garden,..But chiefly where those two fair Creatures Lodge, Now laid perhaps asleep secure of harme. 1669 Pepys Diary 19 Feb., After seeing the girls, who lodged in our bed, with their maid Martha,..I to the office. 1724 R. Wodrow Life of Jas. Wodrow (1828) 68 He was several times forced to lodge in the open fields in the night time. 1778 F. Burney Evelina (1791) II. 246 The Captain will lodge at the Wells. 1781 Gibbon Decl. & F. II. xlvi. 734 He lodged in the cottage of a peasant. 1888 Daily News 18 Oct. 5/3 One boy of fifteen, for example, was sent to this dismal sojourn for the offence of ‘lodging in the open air’... ‘Lodging’, we assume, means sleeping. 1900 A. Lang in Blackw. Mag. Dec. 901/2 Darnley was to lodge at Craigmillar.

    b. In a wider sense: To have one's abode; to dwell, reside. In later use chiefly transf. and fig. of a thing = to have its seat, ‘reside’, be placed. Now rare.

1362 Langl. P. Pl. A. ix. 7 Was neuer wiht as I wente that me wisse couthe Wher this ladde loggede lasse ne more. c 1400 Destr. Troy v. 1631 Priam by purpos a pales gert make,..Louely and large to logge in hym seluyn. 1463 Bury Wills (Camd. Soc.) 21 He and his successours to logge there. 1567 J. Maplet Gr. Forest 27 b, The bark which is the defence (and as I mought so say) their house to lodge in. 1598 Yong Diana 302 But he, that in high and loftie houses lodgeth (though the thunderclap smite him not) may be killed or wounded with the stones, timber, or some other thing that may fall from thence. 1602 Marston Antonio's Rev. iii. ii. Wks. 1856 I. 108 O, you departed soules, That lodge in coffin'd trunkes. 1602 Shakes. Ham. i. v. 87 Leaue her to heauen, And to those Thornes that in her bosome lodge, To pricke and sting her. Ibid. v. i. 252 She should in ground vnsanctified haue lodg'd, Till the last Trumpet. 1634 Milton Comus 246 Sure something holy lodges in that brest. 1682 Enq. Elect. Sheriffs 31 The Right of chusing the Sheriffs of London, does by Charter,..lodg not in the Lord Mayor alone, but in him, the Court of Aldermen, and the Commons of London. a 1792 Wolcot (P. Pindar) Wks. III. 5 The heart that lodges in that miser's breast. 1855 Bain Senses & Int. ii. iv. §19 (1864) 286 A strong sensibility..lodges in the lachrymal organ.

    c. spec. To reside as an inmate in another person's house, paying a sum of money periodically in return for the accommodation afforded; to be a lodger, to live in lodgings.

1749 Fielding Tom Jones xiii. v. (heading in Contents), The Adventure which happened to Mr. Jones at his Lodgings, with some Account of a young Gentleman who lodged there. 1858 Lytton What will he do i. i, She and her grandfather lodge with me.

    8. To be arrested or intercepted in fall or progress; to ‘stick’ in a position.

1611 Cotgr., Encrouer, to lodge, as a cudgell in a tree; to hang on, or ledge in. 1647 Cowley Mistress, ‘Resolved to be Beloved’ ii. iv, But if it ought that's soft and yielding hit; It lodges there, and stays in it. 1781 Cowper Charity 531 Worms may be caught by either head or tail;..Plunged in the stream, they lodge upon the mud. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Geog. I. 480 In a freshet the flood wood frequently lodges, and in a few minutes the water rises to full banks. 1825 J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 374 An opening..which is nearly round or square, because if it were narrow the stuff might lodge. 1853 Lytton My Novel iii. xii. 125, I..who might have been shot through the lungs, only the ball lodged in the shoulder. 1885 Grant Pers. Mem. I. xx. 279 A musket ball entered the room, struck the head of the sofa, passed through it and lodged in the foot.

    9. Hunting. Of a buck: intr. To betake himself to his ‘lodge’ or lair. Also quasi-pass., to be in his ‘lodge’.

c 1470 in Hors, Shepe, & G. etc. (Roxb.) 31 A bucke is logged. c 1486 Bk. St. Albans F vij b, A Bucke lodgith. 1615 [see harbour v. 2 c]. 1801 Strutt Sports & Past. i. i. 17 A hart was said to be harbored, a buck lodged [etc.]. 1888 P. Lindley in Times 16 Oct. 10/5 The hound worked on leash from the spot where the deer had lodged.

    10. Of corn: = to be lodged (see 5).

1630 S. Lennard tr. Charron's Wisd. iii. xxxvii. (1670) 509 As corn lodgeth by too great abundance and boughs over⁓charged with fruit break asunder. 1731 Tull Horse-hoeing Husb. xiii. (1733) 151 One Argument, that it lodges for want of Nourishment is, that a rich Acre has maintain'd a Crop of Five Quarters standing. 1759 tr. Duhamel's Husb. i. iv. (1762) 9 It grew so rank that it lodged, and yielded but little grain. 1884 Harper's Mag. July 247/1 The growth had been so heavy that..it had ‘lodged’, or fallen.

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