Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Lodge \Lodge\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Lodged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Lodging}.]
   1. 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. --Chaucer.

            Stay and lodge by me this night.      --Shak.

            Something holy lodges in that breast. --Milton.

   2. To fall or lie down, as grass or grain, when overgrown or
      beaten down by the wind. --Mortimer.

   3. To come to a rest; to stop and remain; as, the bullet
      lodged in the bark of a tree.

Lodge \Lodge\, n. [OE. loge, logge, F. loge, LL. laubia porch,
   gallery, fr. OHG. louba, G. laube, arbor, bower, fr. lab
   foliage. See {Leaf}, and cf. {Lobby}, {Loggia}.]
   1. A shelter in which one may rest; as:
      (a) A shed; a rude cabin; a hut; as, an Indian's lodge.
          --Chaucer.

                Their lodges and their tentis up they gan bigge
                [to build].                       --Robert of
                                                  Brunne.

                O for a lodge in some vast wilderness! --Cowper.
      (b) A small dwelling house, as for a gamekeeper or
          gatekeeper of an estate. --Shak.
      (c) A den or cave.
      (d) The meeting room of an association; hence, the
          regularly constituted body of members which meets
          there; as, a masonic lodge.
      (c) The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.

   2. (Mining) 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}. --Raymond.

   3. A collection of objects lodged together.

            The Maldives, a famous lodge of islands. --De Foe.

   4. 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.

   {Lodge gate}, a park gate, or entrance gate, near the lodge.
      See {Lodge}, n., 1
      (b) .

Lodge \Lodge\, v. t. [OE. loggen, OF. logier, F. loger. See
   {Lodge}, n. ]
   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.

Source : WordNet®

Lodge
     n 1: English physicist who studied electromagnetic radiation and
          was a pioneer of radiotelegraphy (1851-1940) [syn: {Sir
          Oliver Lodge}, {Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge}]
     2: a formal association of people with similar interests; "he
        joined a golf club"; "they formed a small lunch society";
        "men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen
        today" [syn: {club}, {society}, {guild}, {gild}, {order}]
     3: small house at the entrance to the grounds of a country
        mansion; usually occupied by a gatekeeper or gardener
     4: a small (rustic) house used as a temporary shelter [syn: {hunting
        lodge}]
     5: any of various native American dwellings [syn: {indian lodge}]
     6: a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers [syn: {hostel},
         {hostelry}, {inn}]