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e a battlement, bestowed on him who first mounted the wall of a besieged place, and there lodged a standard.

The cavity in the skull in which the parts of the internal ear are lodged.

A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment. [R.] "Lodged in a small partition." Milton.

A form of government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of the wealthy classes; government by the rich; also, a controlling or influential class of rich men.

A paper containing the particulars of a writ, lodged in the office out of which the writ is to be issued. Wharton.

lly (Arch.), to fill up the joints of, as stones in buildings when the mortar has been dislodged by age and the action of the weather. Gwilt.

To take shelter or harbor. [Obs.] If your stray attendance be yet lodged, Or shroud within these limits. Milton.

s, or with a string fastened to one end and a light stick to the other. The missile being lodged in a hole in the strap, the ends of the string are taken in the hand, and the whole whirled rapidly round until, by loosing one end, the missile is let fly with centrifugal force.

A pointed instument for clearing the teeth of substances lodged between them.

terrogatively and relatively; as, where are you going But where does this tend Goldsmith. Lodged in sunny cleft, Where the gold breezes come not. Bryant.