lodging money

Money given in lieu of lodgings, as an allowance to officers and others for whom suitable quarters cannot be provided. ( Eng.) lodg-ment, lodge-ment, s. [Fr. logement; from loge =lodging.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. The act of lodging; the state of being lodged; as, the lodgment of money in a bank; the lodgment of a stone on a roof, . *2. A place where persons or things are lodged; a lodging. "Within the space were rear'd Twelve ample cells, the lodgments of his herd." Pope: Homer's Ody ey, xiv. 18. 3. Disposition, arrangement, or collocation in a certain manner. 4. An accumulation of matter lodged or deposited in a place, and remaining at rest. 3. A small house appendant to a larger as, a travasated matter."-Sharp: Surgery. porter's lodge. 4. A home, a dwelling of any sort. "How the beavers built their lodges Where the squirrels hid their acorns." Long fellow: Hiawatha, iii. 5. A room or place where a society or branch of a society meets for busine . "Having got acquainted with the Duke of Athol at a lodge of Freemasons." - Walpole : Anecdotes of Painting, vol. iv., ch. iii. 6. The members who meet at such a place. 7. A collection of objects situated close together; as, a lodge of islands. 8. The occupants of an American Indian lodge or tepeé, consisting usually of from four to six persons. †lodge-a-ble, *lodg-a-ble, a . [English lodge ; -able .] Capable of affording lodging; fit for lodg ing in. "At the furthest end of the town eastward, the amba ador's house was appointed, but not yet (by default of some of the king's officers) lodgable." -Sir J. Finett: Philoxemis (1656), p. 164. lõdģed, pa. par. & a. [LODGE, v.] A. As pa . par .: (See the verb.) B. As adjective: IMG:content-0678.png:[blocks in formation]