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One who provides lodgings; especially, the officer of the English royal household who formerly preceded the court when traveling, to provide and prepare lodgings. Fuller.

Specif.: A lodging place; an inn. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Harborage; lodging; shelter; harbor. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To take shelter or lodgings together; to reside in a collective body. Pope.

mal to live in, or a natural cavity inhabited by an animal; hence, a low, narrow, or dark lodging or place; a mean habitation. Dryden. The foxes have holes, . . . but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. Luke ix. 58.

The home base; he started for home. At home.(a) At one's own house, or lodgings. (b) In one's own town or country; as, peace abroad and at home. (c) Prepared to receive callers. -- Home department, the department of executive administration, by which the internal affairs of a country are managed. [Eng.] To be at home…

An inn; a lodging; a hospice. [Obs.]

ns another, whether gratuitosly or for compensation; one from whom another receives food, lodging, or entertainment; a landlord. Chaucer. "Fair host and Earl." Tennyson. Time is like a fashionable host, That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand. Shak.

An inn; a lodging house. [Archaic] Chaucer. "Homely brought up in a rude hostelry." B. Jonson. Come with me to the hostelry. Longfellow.

A hostelry; an inn or lodging house. [Obs.] Marlowe.

To take shelter or lodging; to abide to dwell; to lodge. You shall not house with me. Shak.

A lodging house for Mohammedan pilgrims. Moore.

A house for the lodging and entertainment of travelers or wayfarers; a tavern; a public house; a hotel.

A patient who receives lodging and food, as well as treatment, in a hospital or an infirmary; -- distinguished from outpatient.

To give entertainment to; to feast. The good woman took my lodgings over my head, and was in such a hurry to junket her neighbors. Walpole.

The mistress of an inn or lodging house.

The master of an inn or of a lodging house. Upon our arrival at the inn, my companion fetched out the jolly landlord. Addison.

A house or lodging. [Old Slang] B. Jonson.

Gloucester. I willingly confess that it likes me much better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature. Sir P. Sidney.

Capable of affording lodging; fit for lodging in. [R.] " The lodgeable area of the earth." Jeffrey.