1. To give shelter or rest to; especially, to furnish a sleeping place for; to harbor; to shelter; hence, to receive; to hold. Every house was proud to lodge a knight. Dryden. The memory can lodge a greater stone of images that all the senses can present at one time. Cheyne.
2. To drive to shelter; to track to covert. The deer is lodged; I have tracked her to her covert. Addison.
3. To deposit for keeping or preservation; as, the men lodged their arms in the arsenal.
4. To cause to stop or rest in; to implant. He lodged an arrow in a tender breast. Addison.
5. To lay down; to prostrate. Though bladed corn be lodged, and trees blown down. Shak. To lodge an information, to enter a formal complaint.
LODGEABLE
Lodge"a*ble, a. Etym: [Cf. F. logeable.]
1. That may be or can be lodged; as, so many persons are not lodgeable in this village.
2. Capable of affording lodging; fit for lodging in. [R.] " The lodgeable area of the earth." Jeffrey.
LODGED
Lodged, a. (Her.)
Defn: Lying down; — used of beasts of the chase, as couchant is of beasts of prey.