2. A lodging place; a room. [Obs.]
3. An accumulation or collection of something deposited in a place or remaining at rest.
4. (Mil.)
Defn: The occupation and holding of a position, as by a besieging party; an instrument thrown up in a captured position; as, to effect a lodgment.
LODICULE Lod"i*cule, n. Etym: [L. lodicula. dim, of lodix, lodicis, a coverlet: cf. F. lodicule.] (Bot.)
Defn: One of the two or three delicate membranous scales which are next to the stamens in grasses.
LOELLINGITE
Loel"ling*ite, n. Etym: [So called from Lölling, in Austria.] (Min.)
Defn: A tin-white arsenide of iron, isomorphous with arsenopyrite.
LOESS
Loess, n. Etym: [G. löss.] (Geol.)
Defn: A quaternary deposit, usually consisting of a fine yellowish earth, on the banks of the Rhine and other large rivers.