Bible Dictionaries
Lodge

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) To cause to stop or rest in; to implant.

(2):

(n.) A shelter in which one may rest; as: (a) A shed; a rude cabin; a hut; as, an Indian's lodge.

(3):

(n.) To lay down; to prostrate.

(4):

(n.) The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.

(5):

(v. i.) To rest or remain a lodge house, or other shelter; to rest; to stay; to abide; esp., to sleep at night; as, to lodge in York Street.

(6):

(n.) A collection of objects lodged together.

(7):

(n.) The space at the mouth of a level next the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; - called also platt.

(8):

(n.) A family of North American Indians, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge, - as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons; as, the tribe consists of about two hundred lodges, that is, of about a thousand individuals.

(9):

(n.) A small dwelling house, as for a gamekeeper or gatekeeper of an estate.

(10):

(n.) The meeting room of an association; hence, the regularly constituted body of members which meets there; as, a masonic lodge.

(11):

(n.) A den or cave.

(12):

(n.) To give shelter or rest to; especially, to furnish a sleeping place for; to harbor; to shelter; hence, to receive; to hold.

(13):

(v. i.) To come to a rest; to stop and remain; as, the bullet lodged in the bark of a tree.

(14):

(v. i.) To fall or lie down, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.

(15):

(n.) To drive to shelter; to track to covert.

(16):

(n.) To deposit for keeping or preservation; as, the men lodged their arms in the arsenal.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Lodge'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​l/lodge.html. 1828.