lodgement

[LODGMENT.] lodger, s . [Eng. lodg ( e ); -er .] One who lodges; one who lives in lodgings; one who is not a permanent inhabitant or resident. "We were lodgers at the Pegasus." Shakesp.: Taming of the Shrew, iv. 4. lodger-franchise, s. A franchise introduced in England by the Reform Bill of 1867. It conferred IMG:content-0679.png:[blocks in formation] 1. The act or state of residing or taking up one's abode temporarily. 2. A place of rest or residence for a time or for a night; a temporary residence; especially a room or rooms hired for residence in the house of another, in which sense it is commonly used in the plural. "His food, his drink, his lodging , his clothes, he owed to charity."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng . , ch. xviii. 3. A place of residence; a retreat, an abode. "But there with all a prattling parrot skips About the private lodging of his peers." Drayton: The Owl. 4. Harbor, covert. 5. Convenience to lodge or sleep on. "Their feathers serve to stuff our beds and pillows yielding us soft and warm lodging ."-Ray: On the Crea tion. "An oppre ed diaphragm from a mere lodgment of exII. Technically: 1. Fortif .: An intrenchment hastily thrown up in a captured work to maintain the position against recapture. 2. Mil .: The occupation of a position.