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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.

To drive from a lodge or place of rest; to remove from a place of quiet or repose; as, shells resting in the sea at a considerate depth are not dislodged by storms.

To lodge amiss. [Obs.]

To lodge again.

To dislodge; to deprive of lodgment. Carew.

On the ground; stranded; -- a nautical term applied to a ship when its bottom lodges on the ground. Totten.

To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop; as, a flying bird alights on a tree; snow alights on a roof.

ith guns, of whatsoever sort or denomination, appear to have been called arquebusiers. E. Lodge.

The persons attending; a retinue; attendants. If your stray attendance by yet lodged. Milton.

temporary huts, but now usually applied to a permanent structure or set of buildings. He lodged in a miserable hut or barrack, composed of dry branches and thatched with straw. Gibbon.

A ticket from a public officer directing soldiers at what house to lodge; as, a billet of residence.

To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge, as conies, rabbits, etc.

To lodge. [Obs.] Spenser.

To excavate a hole to lodge in, as in the earth; to lodge in a hole excavated in the earth, as conies or rabbits.

To live in, or as in, a cabin; to lodge. I'll make you . . . cabin in a cave. Shak.

spot, chiefty by Methodists. It usualy last for several days, during which those present lodge in tents, temporary houses, or cottages. -- Camp stool, the same as camp chair, except that the stool has no back. -- Flying camp (Mil.), a camp or body of troops formed for rapid motion from one place to another. Farrow.…