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., a sleeping apartment; -- often in the plural with a singular meaning. Gower. Wits take lodgings in the sound of Bow. Pope.

eded, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.

ed which is desired or needful; -- often in the plural; as, the accomodations -- that is, lodgings and food -- at an inn. Sir W. Scott.

A room or apartment intended or used for a bed; a lodging room.

To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge. Hence: To quarter, or place in lodgings, as soldiers in private houses. Billeted in so antiquated a mansion. W. Irving.

To furnish with regular meals, or with meals and lodgings, for compensation; to supply with daily meals.

One who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind.

lying, or the state of being supplied, with regular or specified meals, or with meals and lodgings, for pay. Boarding house, a house in which boarders are kept. -- Boarding nettings (Naut.), a strong network of cords or ropes erected at the side of a ship to prevent an enemy from boarding it. -- Boarding pike (Naut.)…

Anciently, a chamber; a lodging room; esp., a lady's private apartment. Give me my lute in bed now as I lie, And lock the doors of mine unlucky bower. Gascoigne.

To afford rest or lodging for, as an army or travelers. Had our great palace the capacity To camp this host, we all would sup together. Shak.

Lodging in a camp.

A lodging for soldiers in garrison towns, usually near the rampart; barracks. Bescherelle.

Apartments in a lodging house. "A bachelor's life in chambers." Thackeray.

A feudal prerogative of the lord of the soil entitling him to lodging and food at his tenant's house. Burrill. Sometimes he contrived, in deflance of the law, to live by coshering, that is to say, by quartering himself on the old tentants of his family, who, wretched as was their own condition, could not refuse a porti…

by gashing it, when living, with a knife; as, to crimp skate, etc. Crimping house, a low lodging house, into which men are decoyed and plied with drink, to induce them to ship or enlist as sailors or soldiers. -- Crimping iron. (a) An iron instrument for crimping and curling the hair. (b) A crimping machine. -- Crim…

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

A cheap lodging house.

act of pitching tents or forming huts, as by an army or traveling company, for temporary lodging or rest.

A stage in traveling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey or progress; a rest. [Obs.] Kersey.

y an officer in the English royal household, who attended to the furnishing of the king's lodgings and had certain privileges.