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One who lodges temporarily in a hut or camp.

anxiety; concern; solicitude. Care keeps his wath in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie. Shak.

d and paid out; a money box. [Obs.] This bank is properly a general cash, where every man lodges his money. Sir W. Temple. £20,000 are known to be in her cash. Sir R. Winwood.

A description of some invention, designed to be patented, lodged in the patent office before the patent right is applied for, and operating as a bar to the issue of letters patent to any other person, respecting the same invention.

duct religious exercises for a society, etc.; as, a chaplain of a Masonic or a temperance lodge.

g from the constituted authorities of an order or society (as the Freemasons), creating a lodge and defining its powers.

through this garden; leave unsearched no nook; But chiefly where those two fair creatures lodge. Milton.

ly improved in conductivity by the influence of Hertzian waves; -- so called by Sir O. J. Lodge in 1894 on the assumption that the impact of the electic waves caused the loosely connected parts to cohere, or weld together, a condition easily destroyed by tapping. A common form of coherer as used in wireless telegraphy…

An assembly or lodge of Knights Templars (so called) among the Freemasons. [U. S.]

The office or lodge of a concierge or janitor.

To levy certain exactions or tribute upon; to lodge and eat at the expense of. See Coshering.

the whole covered way, beyond the ditch, with its parapet and glacis; as, the enemy have lodged themselves on the counterscarp.

fought under cover of the batteries; the woods afforded a good cover. Being compelled to lodge in the field . . . whilst his army was under cover, they might be forced to retire. Clarendon.

othing, etc. Noah removed the covering of the ark. Gen. viii. 13. They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold. Job. xxiv. 7. A covering over the well's mouth. 2 Sam. xvii. 19.

To lie or lodge, as in a cradle. Withered roots and husks wherein the acorn cradled. Shak.

To lodge in some one's hands for sale keeping; to commit to the custody of another; to intrust; esp., to place in a bank, as a sum of money subject to order.

One with whom anything is lodged in the trust; one who receives a deposit; -- the correlative of depositor. I . . . made you my guardians, my depositaries. Shak. The depositaries of power, who are mere delegates of the people.J.S. Mill.

To dislodge. [Obs.] Those sleeping stones . . . from their fixed beds of lime Had been dishabited. Shak.

The act or process of dislodging, or the state of being dislodged.

To dislodge; to drive away; to banish. [Obs.] You have displaced the mirth. Shak.