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To reside for a time; to lodge; to dwell. [Now disused except locally or colloquially.] Knock at his study, where, they say, he keeps. Shak.

To lie or lodge; to dwell, as a dog or a fox. The dog kenneled in a hollow tree. L'Estrange.

A place where milch cows are kept, or cattle on the way to market are lodged. [Obs.]

; as, a legislative act; a legislative body. The supreme legislative power of England was lodged in the king and great council, or what was afterwards called the Parliament. Hume.

To lodge; to sleep. Whiles I was now trifling at home, I saw London, . . . where I lay one night only. Evelyn. Mr. Quinion lay at our house that night. Dickens.

ce; to live away from home as a servant. [U. S.] -- To live with. (a) To dwell or to be a lodger with. (b) To cohabit with; to have intercourse with, as male with female.

ght went through the town from house to house whereat any English gentleman did repast or lodge, and served their liveries for all night: first, the officers brought into the house a cast of fine manchet [white bread], and of silver two great post, and white wine, and sugar. Cavendish.

The cell of a pericarp in which the seed is lodged.

The act of one who, or that which, lodges.

The act of lodging, or the state of being lodged. Any particle which is of size enough to make a lodgment afterwards in the small arteries. Paley.

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

See Lodge. [Obs.] Chaucer.

the court. Bouvier. Wharton. -- Past master, one who has held the office of master in a lodge of Freemasons or in a society similarly organized. -- The old masters, distinguished painters who preceded modern painters; especially, the celebrated painters of the 16th and 17th centuries. -- To be master of one's self,…

To form subterraneous tunnel or hole; to form a burrow or lodge in the earth; as, the mining cony.

A state or government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of a monarch.

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.

See Lodge, n. Raymond.

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.