The Maldives, a famous lodge of islands.
De Foe.
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.
Lodge gate, a park gate, or entrance gate, near the lodge. See Lodge,
n., 1 (b).
Lodge, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lodged (ljd); p. pr. & vb. n. Lodging
(lj"ng).] 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.
Stay and lodge by me this night.
Shak.
Something holy lodges in that breast.
Milton.
2. To fall or lie down, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten
down by the wind. Mortimer.
3. To come to a rest; to stop and remain; as, the bullet lodged in the
bark of a tree.
Lodge, 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.
Every house was proud to lodge a knight.
Dryden.
The memory can lodge a greater store of images than all the senses
can present at one time.
Cheyne.