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  • English Word Lodesman Definition A pilot.
  • English Word Lodesman Definition Same as Loadsman.
  • English Word Lodestar Definition A star that leads; a guiding star; esp., the polestar; the cynosure.
  • English Word Lodestar Definition Same as Loadstar.
  • English Word Lodestone Definition A piece of magnetic iron ore possessing polarity like a magnetic needle. See Magnetite.
  • English Word Lodestone Definition Same as Loadstone.
  • English Word Lodge Definition A shelter in which one may rest; as: (a) A shed; a rude cabin; a hut; as, an Indian's lodge.
  • English Word Lodge Definition A small dwelling house, as for a gamekeeper or gatekeeper of an estate.
  • English Word Lodge Definition A den or cave.
  • English Word Lodge Definition The meeting room of an association; hence, the regularly constituted body of members which meets there; as, a masonic lodge.
  • English Word Lodge Definition The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
  • English Word Lodge Definition 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.
  • English Word Lodge Definition A collection of objects lodged together.
  • English Word Lodge Definition 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.
  • English Word Lodge Definition 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.
  • English Word Lodge Definition To fall or lie down, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
  • English Word Lodge Definition To come to a rest; to stop and remain; as, the bullet lodged in the bark of a tree.
  • English Word Lodge Definition To give shelter or rest to; especially, to furnish a sleeping place for; to harbor; to shelter; hence, to receive; to hold.
  • English Word Lodge Definition To drive to shelter; to track to covert.
  • English Word Lodge Definition To deposit for keeping or preservation; as, the men lodged their arms in the arsenal.
  • English Word Lodge Definition To cause to stop or rest in; to implant.
  • English Word Lodge Definition To lay down; to prostrate.
  • English Word Lodgeable Definition That may be or can be lodged; as, so many persons are not lodgeable in this village.
  • English Word Lodgeable Definition Capable of affording lodging; fit for lodging in.
  • English Word Lodged Definition of Lodge
  • English Word Lodged Definition Lying down; -- used of beasts of the chase, as couchant is of beasts of prey.
  • English Word Lodgement Definition See Lodgment.
  • English Word Lodger Definition One who, or that which, lodges; one who occupies a hired room in another's house.
  • English Word Lodging Definition of Lodge
  • English Word Lodging Definition The act of one who, or that which, lodges.