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The capelin.

A water course or way; a reach of water. Down that long, dark lode . . . he and his brother skated home in triumph. C. Kingsley.

An old name for a pilot boat.

Pilotage. [Obs.]

Same as Loadsman. [Obs.]

Same as Loadstar.

Same as Loadstone.

A shelter in which one may rest; as: (a) A shed; a rude cabin; a hut; as, an Indian's lodge. Chaucer. Their lodges and their tentis up they gan bigge [to build]. Robert of Brunne. O for a lodge in some vast wilderness! Cowper.

That may be or can be lodged; as, so many persons are not lodgeable in this village.

Lying down; -- used of beasts of the chase, as couchant is of beasts of prey.

See Lodgment.

One who, or that which, lodges; one who occupies a hired room in another's house.

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.

One of the two or three delicate membranous scales which are next to the stamens in grasses.

A tin-white arsenide of iron, isomorphous with arsenopyrite.

A quaternary deposit, usually consisting of a fine yellowish earth, on the banks of the Rhine and other large rivers.

The peculiar larva of Polygordius. See Polygordius.

To laugh. [Obs.] Shak.

A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.; as, an organ loft.