lodge

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 ]