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founded in London in 1781, and professedly based on the traditions of the ancient Druids. Lodges or groves of the society are established in other countries. Druid stones, a name given, in the south of England, to weatherworn, rough pillars of gray sandstone scattered over the chalk downs, but in other countries genera…

A plug of some substance lodged in a blood vessel, being brought thither by the blood current. It consists most frequently of a clot of fibrin, a detached shred of a morbid growth, a globule of fat, or a microscopic organism.

To lodge or rest in a bower. [Poetic] "In their wide boughs embow'ring. " Spenser.

A large stable or lodge for horses. Johnson.

manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as the case may be, lodgers or boarders.

s to command the side of an assailing body. They threw out flankers, and endeavored to dislodge their assailants. W. Irwing.

e dignity, size, or importance than other persons or things of the same name; as, a grand lodge; a grand vizier; a grand piano, etc.

To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.

To lodge, or abide for a time; to take shelter, as in a harbor. For this night let's harbor here in York. Shak.

To receive with hospitality; to lodge as a guest. [Obs.] Cockeram.

To lodge at an inn; to take up entertainment. [Obs.] "Where you shall host." Shak.

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

after death, to be happy in hunting and feasting. Tylor. -- Hunting box. Same As Hunting lodge (below). -- Hunting cat (Zoöl.), the cheetah. -- Hunting cog (Mach.), a tooth in the larger of two geared wheels which makes its number of teeth prime to the number in the smaller wheel, thus preventing the frequent meetin…

A small house, hivel, or cabin; a mean lodge or dwelling; a slightly built or temporary structure. Death comes on with equal footsteps To the hall and hut. Bp. Coxe.

likeness of the object being transmitted from thence [the senses] to the imagination, and lodged there for the view and observation of the pure intellect, is aptly and properly called its idea. P. Browne.

To lodge in a chamber. [R.] Sherwood.

A hospital, or place where the infirm or sick are lodged and nursed gratuitously, or where out-patients are treated.

One who dwells or resides permanently in a place, as distinguished from a transient lodger or visitor; as, an inhabitant of a house, a town, a city, county, or state. "Frail inhabitants of earth." Cowper. In this place, they report that they saw inhabitants which were very fair and fat people. Abp. Abbot.…

One who lives in the same house or apartment with another; a fellow lodger; esp.,one of the occupants of an asylum, hospital, or prison; by extension, one who occupies or lodges in any place or dwelling. So spake the enemy of mankind, inclos'd In serpent, inmate bad. Milton.

To take lodging; to lodge. [R.] Addison.