(loj) v. lodged, lodg·ing v.t.
1. To furnish with temporary living quarters; house.
2. To rent a room or rooms to; take as a paying guest.
3. To serve as a shelter or dwelling for.
4. To deposit for safekeeping or storage.
5. To place or implant, as by throwing, thrusting, etc.: I lodged an arrow in the tree.
6. To place (a complaint, information, etc.) before proper authority.
7. To confer or invest (power, etc.).
8. To beat down (crops): said of rain, storms, etc.
—v.i.
9. To take temporary shelter or quarters; pass the night.
10. To live in a rented room or rooms.
11. To become fixed in some place or position: The bullet lodged in his leg. See synonyms under ABIDE, ACCOMMODATE.
—noun
1. A small house affording temporary accommodations; a hut.
2. A small dwelling appurtenant to a manor house, park, or the like.
3. The lair of a wild animal, especially of a group of beavers; also, collectively, the beavers themselves.
4. A local subdivision of a secret society, or its meeting place.
5. U.S. Among the American Indians, a small hut or tepee of skins, bark, and poles; also, its inhabitants. [<OF logier <loge <Med. L lobia, laubia porch, gallery <OHG louba <loub foliage; noun, doublet of LOBBY, LOGE, LOGGIA]

(loj), Henry Cabot,
1850–1924, U.S. politician and historian.
—Sir Oliver (Joseph),
1851–1940, English physicist, author, and investigator of psychic phenomena.
—Thomas,
1558?–1625, English dramatist and novelist.