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Lodge
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) To cause to stop or rest in; to implant.
(2):
(n.) A shelter in which one may rest; as: (a) A shed; a rude cabin; a hut; as, an Indian's lodge.
(3):
(n.) To lay down; to prostrate.
(4):
(n.) The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
(5):
(v. i.) 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.
(6):
(n.) A collection of objects lodged together.
(7):
(n.) 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.
(8):
(n.) 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.
(9):
(n.) A small dwelling house, as for a gamekeeper or gatekeeper of an estate.
(10):
(n.) The meeting room of an association; hence, the regularly constituted body of members which meets there; as, a masonic lodge.
(11):
(n.) A den or cave.
(12):
(n.) To give shelter or rest to; especially, to furnish a sleeping place for; to harbor; to shelter; hence, to receive; to hold.
(13):
(v. i.) To come to a rest; to stop and remain; as, the bullet lodged in the bark of a tree.
(14):
(v. i.) To fall or lie down, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
(15):
(n.) To drive to shelter; to track to covert.
(16):
(n.) To deposit for keeping or preservation; as, the men lodged their arms in the arsenal.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Lodge'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/l/lodge.html. 1828.
