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A lodge; a habitation. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Greenland. In the geographical distribution of animals, this region is marked off as the habitat certain species.

A temporary movable habitation; a large tent; a marquee; esp., a tent raised on posts. "[The] Greeks do pitch their brave pavilions." Shak.

Generating or causing phlegm. "Cold and phlegmatic habitations." Sir T. Browne.

To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp. "Laban with his brethren pitched in the Mount of Gilead." Gen. xxxi. 25.

ships for defence; to prepare an entertainment. Milton. That they may prepare a city for habitation. Ps. cvii. 36

The habitation of a recluse; a hermitage.

The place where one resides; an abode; a dwelling or habitation; esp., a settled or permanent home or domicile. "Near the residence of Posthumus." Shak. Johnson took up his residence in London. Macaulay.

from twelve to fifteen feet long, covered with a house, and sometimes used as a permanent habitation on the inland waters. [Written also sanpan.]

One who has no fixed habitation or residence; a vagabond. [Obs.] "Foreign scatterlings." Spenser.

place as a temporary resident or as a stranger, not considering the place as a permanent habitation; to delay; to tarry. Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there. Gen. xii. 30. Home he goeth, he might not longer sojourn. Chaucer. The soldiers first assembled at Newcastle, and there sojourned three days. Hayward.…

erity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry. He sped him thence home to his habitation. Fairfax.

The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat. (e) (Naut.)

A slightly built or temporary habitation; especially, a tent.

A dwelling house; a building for a habitation; also, an apartment, or suite of rooms, in a building, used by one family; often, a house erected to be rented.

To deprive of habitation or shelter, as a crowd.

To drive from a house or habitation; to dislodge; hence, to deprive of shelter.

Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering. "Vagabond exile." Shak.

Wandering from place to place without any settled habitation; as, a vagrant beggar.

A nest, or habitation, of insects of the wasp kind.