Forms: 3–5 logge(n, 5 lodgyn, loyge, loigge, 5–6 Sc. luge, 5–7 loge, 6–7 Sc. louge, ludge, 7 lodg, 5– lodge. [ad. OF. logier (mod.F. loger), f. loge: see LODGE sb.]

1

  I.  trans.

2

  † 1.  To place in tents or other temporary shelter; to encamp, station (an army). Often refl. to pitch one’s tent, to encamp, take up a position; also in passive, to be encamped or stationed. Obs.

3

a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 264. Metati sumus casim juxta lapidem adjutorii … we beoð ilogged her bi þe, þet ert ston of help. Ibid. Ismeles folc com & loggede him bi þe stone of help.

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c. 1330.  R. Brunne, Chron. (1810), 182. Comen ere þe Inglis with pauilloun & tent, & loged þam right wele ouer alle þer þam þink.

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c. 1400.  Destr. Troy, 10745. Pavilions and pure tenttes [þai] pightyn aboute, And þere logget hom to lenge, while hom lefe thoght.

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a. 1400–50.  Alexander, 1952. A Messangere … him tellis, Þat Alexander was at hand & had his ost loygid A-pon þe streme of Struma.

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c. 1450.  Merlin, 277. Ther-of herde Gawein … that the saisnes were thus logged a-boute Bredigan.

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1523.  Ld. Berners, Froiss., I. cxciv. 231. The watchmen of saynt Quintyne … knewe that their ennemyes were natte farre lodged thense.

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1568.  Grafton, Chron., II. 271. At night they returned and sayde, howe that the Englishmen were lodged in the fieldes.

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1598.  Grenewey, Tacitus, Ann., XII. vii. (1622), 163. [Claudius] wrot vnto P. Attilius Histrus … to lodge a Legion, and all the aid he could leuy in the prouince, on the banke of Danubium.

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  † b.  To shelter with foliage. Obs. rare.

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c. 1400.  Destr. Troy, 1140. Lurke vnder leuys logget with vines. Ibid., 1167. Lurkyt vnder lefe-sals loget with vines.

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  2.  To provide with sleeping quarters or temporary habitation; to receive into one’s house for the night; † to entertain, show hospitality to (guests). Also, in wider sense (cf. 7 b), to provide with a habitation; to place as a resident in a building; also in passive, to be (well or ill) accommodated with regard to dwelling.

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13[?].  Coer de L., 6371. They are loggyd in this toun, I wyll goo, and aspye ther roun.

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c. 1375.  Sc. Leg. Saints, xxv. (Julian), 624. A place quhare þat a monk lugyt wes.

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c. 1386.  Chaucer, Nun’s Pr. T., 171. They ne founde as muche as o cotage, In which they bothe myghte logged bee.

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a. 1420.  Hoccleve, De Reg. Princ., 4229. The fader logged hem … In a chambre next to his joynyng.

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1453.  Pol. Poems (Rolls), II. 211. [They came] to Bedlum … Where poorly loggyd they fond the kyng of pees.

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1526.  Tindale, Matt. xxv. 35. I was herbroulesse and ye lodged me.

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1535.  Coverdale, Heb. xiii. 2. Be not forgetfull to lodge straungers.

21

1591.  Shaks., Two Gent., III. i. 35. I nightly lodge her in an vpper Towre, The key whereof, my selfe haue euer kept.

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1596.  Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot., I. 103. With glade wil and frilie thay vse to luge kin, freind and acquaintance, ȝe and strangers that turnes in to thame.

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1622.  Bacon, Hen. VII., 118. When hee was come to the Court of France, the King … stiled him by the name of the Duke of Yorke; lodged him, and accommodated him, in great State.

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1714.  Swift, Imit. Hor. Sat., II. vi. 3. I’ve often wish’d that I had … A handsome House to lodge a Friend, A River at my garden’s end.

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1764.  Burn, Poor Laws, 233. It is a kind of insult upon poverty, to go about to lodge poor people in a superb edifice.

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1766.  Smollett, Trav., I. viii. 139. I … pay at the rate of two-and-thirty livres a day, for which I am very badly lodged, and but very indifferently entertained.

27

1840.  Dickens, Old C. Shop, xxxi. This young lady was lodged for nothing.

28

1841.  Lytton, Nt. & Morn., I. iii. You lodge your horses more magnificently than yourself.

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1845.  M’Culloch, Taxation, I. iii. (1852), 105. The latter are probably better fed, and they certainly are better clothed and better lodged than at any former period.

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  transf.  c. 1325.  Song, Know Thyself, 82, in E. E. P. (1862), 132. Preye we to god vr soules enspire Or we bene logged in eorþe lowe.

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c. 1645.  Habington, Surv. Worcs., in Worcs. Hist. Soc. Proc., I. 95. Sir Humfrey Stafford … maryed Elianor … lodged with him in thys sepulchre.

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  b.  refl. To establish oneself, take up one’s quarters. † In early use, = sense 7.

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c. 1375.  Barbour, Bruce, II. 304. In the woud thaim logyt thai; The thrid part went to the forray.

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c. 1400.  Maundev. (1839), xviii. 193. There ben also in that Contree a kynde of Snayles, that ben so grete, that many persones may loggen hem in here Schelles.

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c. 1489.  Caxton, Sonnes of Aymon, v. 132. Reynawde sayd to his folke, ‘go we lodge vs.’

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a. 1533.  Ld. Berners, Huon, lxxxi. 246. I came & lodged me in the abbey.

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1632.  J. Hayward, trans. Biondi’s Eromena, 108. They lodged themselves in Terranova as well as they could.

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1711.  Lond. Gaz., No. 4899/2. The Enemy … quitted the Bastion…, where our Men … lodg’d themselves, without any Opposition.

39

  † c.  fig. To harbor, entertain (feelings, thoughts). Obs.

40

1583.  Babington, Commandm., vi. (1637), 52. That say Racha, or thou foole to their brethren, that is, that … shew their hearts … to lodge an unlawfull affection towards them.

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1593.  Shaks., Rich. III., II. i. 65. If euer any grudge were lodg’d betweene vs.

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1623.  Penkethman, Handf. Hon., IV. § 43. Lodge not suspect, lest thou still wretched be.

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a. 1708.  Beveridge, Thes. Theol. (1711), III. 20. Dost thou not often lodge vain thoughts?

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  d.  Of a chamber, house, etc.: To serve as a lodging or habitation for. Often transf. and fig. of things: To contain, be the receptacle of; in passive, to be contained in something.

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c. 1449.  Pecock, Repr., V. vii. 521. Whi … ben so manye ostries clepid innes for to logge gistis, thouȝ in fewer of hem alle gestis myȝten be loggid?

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1592.  Davies, Immort. Soul, XXII. iii. The Brain doth lodge the Pow’rs of Sense.

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1593.  Shaks., Lucr., 1530. Saying, some shape in Sinons was abusd; So faire a forme lodg’d not a mind so ill.

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a. 1626.  Bacon, New Atl. (1900), 6. And the other 15 Chambers were to lodge us two and two together.

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1715.  Cheyne, Philos. Princ. Nat. Relig., II. 63. The Memory [can] lodge a greater store of Images, than all the Senses can present at one time.

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1729.  Woodward, Nat. Hist. Fossils, I. I. 182. Mundick Grains … shot into several Figures; lodg’d part of them in a blueish grey, and part in a brown Stone.

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1747.  Berkeley, Tar-water in Plague, Wks. 1871, III. 485. The fine oil, in which the vegetable salts are lodged.

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1795.  Herschel, in Phil. Trans., LXXXV. 353. As tenons of any kind, in an apparatus continually to be exposed to the open air, will bring on a premature decay, by lodging wet.

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1826.  Lamb, Elia, Ser. II. Pop. Fallacies, ix. Perhaps the mind of man is not capacious enough to lodge two puns at a time.

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1830.  Knox, Bécland’s Anat., 266. The conformation of the skull, and that of the vertebral canal depend greatly upon that of the nervous centre which they lodge.

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1835.  S. Smith, Philos. Health, I. v. 216. The size of the spinal canal, accurately adapted to that of the spinal cord, which it lodges and protects.

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1871.  R. Ellis, trans. Catullus, lxvii. 4. Once, when his home, time was, lodged him, a master in years.

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  e.  To receive into, or keep as an inmate of, one’s house for payment; to have as a lodger.

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1741.  trans. D’Argens’ Chinese Lett., i. 3. Come along with me, Sir, you shall be very welcome. I commonly lodge all Gentlemen that come to this Place.

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1833.  Ht. Martineau, Vanderput & S., vi. 90. A peasant who had undertaken to lodge the workmen.

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1884.  N. Hall, in Chr. Commw., 6 Nov., 43/4. Lincoln, in early life, was so poor that he asked a shoemaker to lodge him.

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  † f.  ? To lay to rest (fig.). Obs. rare.

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a. 1658.  Cleveland, May Day, ix. Then crown the Bowl, let every Conduit run Canary, till we lodge the reeling Sun.

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  3.  To place, deposit.

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  a.  To put and cause to remain in a specified place of custody or security.

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1666.  Pepys, Diary, 9 Aug. Money, to enable me to pay Sir G. Carteret’s 3000l., which he hath lodged in my hands.

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1690.  Locke, Hum. Und., II. x. § 7 (1825), 88. In this … viewing again the ideas that are lodged in the memory, the mind is oftentimes more than barely passive.

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1710–1.  Swift, Jrnl. to Stella, 25 March. I wish … Mrs. Brent could contrive to put up my books in boxes, and lodge them in some safe place.

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1713.  Derham, Phys.-Theol., V. vi. (1714), 309. How could we plant the curious and great Variety of Bones … necessary … to the Support, and every Motion of the Body? where could we lodge all the Arteries and Veins to convey Nourishment?

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1802.  Mar. Edgeworth, Moral T. (1816), I. 212. Their orders were … to lodge count L. in … a state prison.

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1810.  Naval Chron., XXIV. 459. A reward of Six Dollars will be given for apprehending and lodging him in the Cage.

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1827.  O. W. Roberts, Voy. Centr. Amer., 52. His object was to lodge supplies of goods … at various trading depots.

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1849.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., iv. I. 623. Soon after Monmouth had been lodged in the Tower, he was informed that [etc.].

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1866.  Crump, Banking, ix. 177. The issue of receipts by the goldsmiths for money lodged in their hands.

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1871.  B. Stewart, Heat, § 70. A new standard and four authorized copies were made and lodged at the office of the Exchequer.

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1882.  Pebody, Eng. Journalism, xx. 149. Messrs. Stevenson and Salt are my bankers. Lodge £15,000 there to my credit, and within a week you shall have a daily evening paper.

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  † b.  ‘To place in the memory’ (J.). Obs.

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1622.  Bacon, Hen. VII., 37. Which cunning the King would not vnderstand, though he lodged it, and noted it in some particulars, as his manner was.

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  c.  To deposit in court or with some appointed officer a formal statement of (an information, complaint, objection, etc.). Hence, in popular language, to bring forward, allege (an objection, etc.).

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1708.  Ld. Sunderland, in Ellis, Orig. Lett., Ser. II. IV. 250. Several merchants on the other side have lodged a Petition against him.

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1754–62.  Hume, Hist. Eng. (1806), IV. lvii. 354. The impeachment which the king had lodged against him.

81

1802.  Mar. Edgeworth, Moral T. (1822), I. xv. 122. A magistrate, with whom informations had been lodged.

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1885.  Cave, in Law Times Rep., LII. 627/2. The objection which has been lodged against this appeal is necessarily fatal.

83

1888.  Bryce, Amer. Commw., II. xxxvi. 20. An American may … never be reminded of the Federal Government except when he … lodges a complaint against the Post-Office.

84

1891.  Law Times, XCII. 106/2. Persons who have any interest in land which is sought to be registered can lodge a caution with the registering officer.

85

  d.  To vest, cause to ‘reside,’ or represent as residing, in a specified person or thing; to place (power, etc.) with or in the hands of a person.

86

1670.  Walton, Life of Hooker, 40. Acts of Parliament, intending the better preservation of the church-lands, by recalling a power which was vested in others to sell or lease them, by lodging and trusting the future care and protection of them only in the crown.

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a. 1677.  Hale, Prim. Orig. Man., II. iii. 142. The Heathen Authors allow not above 1400 years at most for the continuance of the Assyrian Monarchy, and lodge the Original of it in Belus.

88

1712.  Berkeley, Pass. Obed., § 3, Wks. 1871, III. 108. Neither shall I consider where or in what persons the supreme or legislative power is lodged in this or that government.

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a. 1715.  Burnet, Own Time (1724), I. 364. So he lodged it [viz. a dispute] now where he wished it might be, in a point of prerogative.

90

1752.  Young, Brothers, IV. i. Wks. 1757, II. 260. When all our hopes are lodg’d in such expedients, ’Tis as if poison were our only food.

91

1752.  Hume, Ess., v. Indep. Parl. (1768), 31. The power of the Crown is always lodged in a single person.

92

1804.  Wellesley, in Owen, Desp., 277. The Peishwa’s power was lodged by another train of events in the hands of Scindiah.

93

1817.  Jas. Mill, Brit. India, III. vi. i. 52. The powers which were lodged with the Board of Control … were lodged without danger.

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1818.  Cruise, Digest, VI. 381. And they could not take in that manner but by lodging an estate tail in George Grew.

95

1855.  Prescott, Philip II., II. v. (1857), 251. Philip, on leaving the country, lodged the administration nominally in three councils.

96

1868.  E. Arber, Introd. to Selden’s Table-T., 11. Selden lodges the Civil Power of England in the King and the Parliament.

97

1869.  Haddan, Apost. Succ., iii. (1879), 62. There can be no ministry save where the Apostles have lodged the power of appointing one.

98

1888.  Bryce, Amer. Commw., II. lii. 314. The powers thus taken away from the common council, are ordinarily lodged with boards made up of the higher city officials.

99

  e.  To get (a thing) into the intended place; esp. to succeed in causing (a weapon, a blow) to fall and take effect where it is aimed.

100

1611.  Cotgr., s.v. Escusson, Enter en escusson, to lodge that bud in the bark of a tree by an incision … of the forme of a T.

101

1680.  Otway, Orphan, I. i. (1691), 3. When on the brink the foaming Boar I met, And in his side thought to have lodg’d my spear.

102

1713.  Addison, Cato, II. iii. O could my dying hand but lodge a sword in Cæsar’s bosom.

103

1777.  Sheridan, Sch. for Scandal, V. ii. Sir Peter is dangerously wounded … By a bullet lodged in the thorax.

104

1853.  Lytton, My Novel, xii. 50. I was shot at in cold blood, by an officer … who lodged a ball in my right shoulder.

105

  f.  Mil. (a) † To point, level (cannon). (b) To place (the colors) in position. (c) To lodge arms (see quot. 1867).

106

1627.  Capt. Smith, Seaman’s Gram., xiii. 60. Keepe your loufe and loge your ordnance againe.

107

1783.  Encycl. Brit., 8968/1. Signals by the Drum. Two long rolls, To bring or lodge the colours.

108

1802.  C. James, Milit. Dict., To lodge arms.

109

1867.  Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., 452. Lodge arms, the word of command to an armed party preparatory to their breaking off.

110

  g.  To throw (something) so that it ‘lodges’ or is caught in its fall (cf. sense 8); to cause to ‘lodge’ or be intercepted; (of a current, etc.) to deposit in passing.

111

1606.  Shaks., Ant. & Cl., IV. xii. 45. Let me lodge Licas on the hornes o’ th’ Moone.

112

1677.  Yarranton, Eng. Improv., 41. The Stones near the Shore lay so great and thick, that they were the occasion of lodging the Sands by them.

113

1808.  Pike, Sources of Mississ. (1810), III. 221. This crate or butment was filled with stone, in which the river had lodged sand, clay, &c. until it had become of a tolerable firm consistency.

114

1863.  Geo. Eliot, Romola, i. (1880), 21. He wore a close jerkin, a skull-cap lodged carelessly over his left ear, as if it had fallen there by chance.

115

  † h.  To set or fasten in a socket or the like. Obs.

116

1726.  Swift, Gulliver, III. iii. 38. A Groove twelve Inches deep, in which the Extremities of the Axle are lodged.

117

1748.  Anson’s Voy., III. v. 341. The heel of the yard is always lodged in one of the sockets.

118

1776.  G. Semple, Building in Water, 134. Let a Coffer … be made … and lodged upon any hard level Ground.

119

1792.  Falconer, Shipwr., I. (ed. 8), 793. They lodge the bars, and wheel the engine round.

120

1825.  E. Hewlett, Cottage Comf., v. 38. A scraper at each door might be furnished at no expense, and very little trouble; a bit of iron hoop lodged into two strong sticks.

121

  4.  To discover the ‘lodge’ of (a buck).

122

1576.  Turberv., Venerie, 239. We herbor and unherbor a Harte, we lodge and rowse a Bucke.

123

1640.  trans. Verdere’s Rom. of Rom., II. 155. I would not walk thus with a purpose to lie all night in the wood, if it were not to lodge him Deer which to morrow he means to hunt.

124

1713.  Addison, Cato, IV. ii. The deer is lodg’d. I’ve track’d her to her covert.

125

1741.  Compl. Fam.-Piece, IV. i. 292. Nor is there required that Skill in lodging a Buck, as there is in harbouring a Stag.

126

1823.  Scott, Peveril, vii. I thought of going to lodge a buck in the park, judging a bit of venison might be wanted.

127

  † b.  transf. ? To track (a fugitive) to his refuge.

128

a. 1625.  Beaum. & Fl., Bonduca, IV. i. Are those come in yet that pursu’d bold Caratach? Not yet, Sir, for I think they mean to lodge him; take him I know they dare not.

129

  5.  To throw down on the ground, lay flat. Now only of rain or wind: To beat down crops. (Cf. ledge, LAY v.1 1 c.)

130

1593.  Shaks., Rich. II., III. iii. 162. Wee’le make foule Weather with despised Teares: Our sighes, and they, shall lodge the Summer Corne, And make a Dearth in this reuolting Land. Ibid. (1605), Macb., IV. i. 55. Though bladed Corne be lodg’d, & Trees blown downe.

131

1621.  Sandys, Ovid’s Met., I. (1626), 7. The Corne is lodg’d, the Husband-men despaire.

132

1653.  Milton, Ps. vii. 18. Let th’ enemy … tread My life down to the earth and roul In the dust my glory dead, In the dust and there out spread Lodge it with dishonour foul.

133

1760.  Brown, Compl. Farmer, II. 72. If rye or wheat be lodged, cut it though it be not thorough ripe.

134

1763.  Museum Rusticum, I. 10. Land may be made too rich for flax, which will undoubtedly lodge it, that is, occasion its prematurely lying flat to the ground.

135

1843.  Zoologist, I. 297. Hedge-row trees … are a great nuisance, blighting the hedges, lodging the crops … and harbouring the plundering ring-dove.

136

1897.  Evesham Jrnl., 24 July (E.D.D.). Winter oats lodged by the little rain.

137

  II.  intr.

138

  † 6.  To encamp. Obs.

139

13[?].  K. Alis., 4098. With his ost he after ferd, And there he [Alisaunder] loggith anon, Ther Darie hadde beon erst apon.

140

c. 1440.  Lonelich, Grail, xliv. 418. Whanne the kyng was Comen to-fore þat Castel, he gan to loggen bothe faire & wel.

141

c. 1500.  Melusine, xxxvi. 281. They concluded that on the morne theire oost shuld lodge a leghe nygh to the Sarasyns.

142

1603.  Knolles, Hist. Turks (1621), 1251. With his armie … encamped in the self same place where the Turks armie had but the yere before lodged.

143

  7.  To remain or dwell temporarily in a place; esp. to pass the night, sleep. Now rare.

144

13[?].  E. E. Allit. P., B. 807. Þay wolde lenge þe long naȝt & logge þer-oute.

145

c. 1400.  Maundev. (Roxb.), xxv. 118. Þare þer þai schall luge ilk a nyght, þai schall fynd before þam redily puruayd all maner of thinges.

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c. 1470.  Henry, Wallace, I. 287. In Dunfermlyn thai lugyt all that nycht.

147

c. 1475[?].  Squyr lowe Degre, 180. Yf ye may no harbroughe se, Than must ye lodge under a tre.

148

a. 1533.  Ld. Berners, Huon, lxviii. 235. They lodged in the strete next to the palays in a good hostrye.

149

a. 1548.  Hall, Chron., Edw. IV., 228. For at the gates entered but a few that were apoynted, the remnant lodged in the feldes.

150

1593.  Shaks., 2 Hen. VI., I. i. 80. Did he so often lodge in open field, In Winters cold, and Summers parching Heate, To conquer France.

151

1596.  Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot., II. 124. That nycht he ludget with ane Thomas Leslie, quha maid him a saft bed, with fair couerings dekit with al decore.

152

1597.  A. M., trans. Guillemeau’s Fr. Chirurg., 53 b. The poore souldiours, who being wounded, must lodge on the earth.

153

1611.  Bible, Job xxiv. 7. They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they haue no couering in the cold.

154

1650.  Jer. Taylor, Holy Living, ii. § 6. 139. Here thou art but a stranger travelling to thy Countrey…; it is therefore a huge folly to be much afflicted because thou hast a lesse convenient Inne to lodge in by the way.

155

1652–62.  Heylin, Cosmogr., II. (1677), 339. The extreme coldness of the Country … is so fierce that generally they lodg between two Feather-beds.

156

1667.  Milton, P. L., IV. 790. Ithuriel and Zephon … Search through this Garden,… But chiefly where those two fair Creatures Lodge, Now laid perhaps asleep secure of harme.

157

1669.  Pepys, Diary, 19 Feb. After seeing the girls, who lodged in our bed, with their maid Martha,… I to the office.

158

1724.  R. Wodrow, Life of Jas. Wodrow (1828), 68. He was several times forced to lodge in the open fields in the night time.

159

1778.  Mad. D’Arblay, Evelina (1791), II. 246. The Captain will lodge at the Wells.

160

1781.  Gibbon, Decl. & F., II. xlvi. 734. He lodged in the cottage of a peasant.

161

1888.  Daily News, 18 Oct., 5/3. One boy of fifteen, for example, was sent to this dismal sojourn for the offence of ‘lodging in the open air.’… ‘Lodging,’ we assume, means sleeping.

162

1900.  A. Lang, in Blackw. Mag., Dec., 901/2. Darnley was to lodge at Craigmillar.

163

  b.  In a wider sense: To have one’s abode; to dwell, reside. In later use chiefly transf. and fig. of a thing = to have its seat, ‘reside,’ be placed. Now rare.

164

1362.  Langl., P. Pl., A. IX. 7. Was neuer wiht as I wente that me wisse couthe Wher this ladde loggede lasse ne more.

165

c. 1400.  Destr. Troy, v. 1631. Priam by purpos a pales gert make,… Louely and large to logge in hym seluyn.

166

1463.  Bury Wills (Camd. Soc.), 21. He and his successours to logge there.

167

1567.  J. Maplet, Gr. Forest, 27 b. The bark which is the defence (and as I mought so say) their house to lodge in.

168

1598.  Yong, Diana, 302. But he, that in high and loftie houses lodgeth (though the thunderclap smite him not) may be killed or wounded with the stones, timber, or some other thing that may fall from thence.

169

1602.  Marston, Antonio’s Rev., III. ii. Wks. 1856, I. 108. O, you departed soules, That lodge in coffin’d trunkes.

170

1602.  Shaks., Ham., I. v. 87. Leaue her to heauen, And to those Thornes that in her bosome lodge, To pricke and sting her. Ibid., V. i. 252. She should in ground vnsanctified haue lodg’d, Till the last Trumpet.

171

1634.  Milton, Comus, 246. Sure something holy lodges in that brest.

172

1682.  Enq. Elect. Sheriffs, 31. The Right of chusing the Sheriffs of London, does by Charter,… lodg not in the Lord Mayor alone, but in him, the Court of Aldermen, and the Commons of London.

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a. 1792.  Wolcot (P. Pindar), Wks., III. 5. The heart that lodges in that miser’s breast.

174

1855.  Bain, Senses & Int., II. iv. § 19 (1864), 286. A strong sensibility … lodges in the lachrymal organ.

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  c.  spec. To reside as an inmate in another person’s house, paying a sum of money periodically in return for the accommodation afforded; to be a lodger, to live in lodgings.

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1749.  Fielding, Tom Jones, XIII. v. (heading in Contents), The Adventure which happened to Mr. Jones at his Lodgings, with some Account of a young Gentleman who lodged there.

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1858.  Lytton, What will He do? I. i. She and her grandfather lodge with me.

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  8.  To be arrested or intercepted in fall or progress; to ‘stick’ in a position.

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1611.  Cotgr., Encrouer, to lodge, as a cudgell in a tree; to hang on, or ledge in.

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1647.  Cowley, Mistress, ‘Resolved to be Beloved,’, II. iv. But if it ought that’s soft and yielding hit; It lodges there, and stays in it.

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1781.  Cowper, Charity, 531. Worms may be caught by either head or tail;… Plunged in the stream, they lodge upon the mud.

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1796.  J. Morse, Amer. Geog., I. 480. In a freshet the flood wood frequently lodges, and in a few minutes the water rises to full banks.

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1825.  J. Nicholson, Operat. Mechanic, 374. An opening … which is nearly round or square, because if it were narrow the stuff might lodge.

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1853.  Lytton, My Novel, III. xii. 125. I … who might have been shot through the lungs, only the ball lodged in the shoulder.

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1885.  Grant, Pers. Mem., I. xx. 279. A musket ball entered the room, struck the head of the sofa, passed through it and lodged in the foot.

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  9.  Hunting. Of a buck: intr. To betake himself to his ‘lodge’ or lair. Also quasi-passive, to be in his ‘lodge.’

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c. 1470.  in Hors, Shepe, & G., etc. (Roxb.), 31. A bucke is logged.

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c. 1486.  Bk. St. Albans, F vij b. A Bucke lodgith.

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1615.  [see HARBOUR v. 2 c].

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1801.  Strutt, Sports & Past., I. i. 17. A hart was said to be harbored, a buck lodged [etc.].

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1888.  P. Lindley, in Times, 16 Oct., 10/5. The hound worked on leash from the spot where the deer had lodged.

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  10.  Of corn: = to be lodged (see 5).

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1630.  Lennard, trans. Charron’s Wisd., III. xxxvii. (1670), 509. As corn lodgeth by too great abundance and boughs overcharged with fruit break asunder.

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1731.  Tull, Horse-hoeing Husb., xiii. (1733), 151. One Argument, that it lodges for want of Nourishment is, that a rich Acre has maintain’d a Crop of Five Quarters standing.

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1759.  trans. Duhamel’s Husb., I. iv. (1762), 9. It grew so rank that it lodged, and yielded but little grain.

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1884.  E. P. Roe, in Harper’s Mag., July, 247/1. The growth had been so heavy that in many places it had ‘lodged,’ or fallen.

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