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

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 description of some invention, designed to be patented, lodged in the patent office before the patent right is applied for, and operating as a bar to the issue of letters patent to any other person, respecting the same invention.

the whole covered way, beyond the ditch, with its parapet and glacis; as, the enemy have lodged themselves on the counterscarp.

any one's hands, for safe keeping; somthing intrusted to the care of another; esp., money lodged with a bank or banker, subject to order; anything given as pledge or security.

One with whom anything is lodged in the trust; one who receives a deposit; -- the correlative of depositor. I . . . made you my guardians, my depositaries. Shak. The depositaries of power, who are mere delegates of the people.J.S. Mill.

place of quiet or repose; as, shells resting in the sea at a considerate depth are not dislodged by storms.

The act or process of dislodging, or the state of being dislodged.

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

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.

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

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.

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

A collection of objects lodged together. The Maldives, a famous lodge of islands. De Foe.

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

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