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Word Meanings - LODGING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of one who, or that which, lodges. 2. A place of rest, or of temporary habitation; esp., a sleeping apartment; -- often in the plural with a singular meaning. Gower. Wits take lodgings in the sound of Bow. Pope. 3. Abiding place; harbor;

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1. The act of one who, or that which, lodges. 2. A place of rest, or of temporary habitation; esp., a sleeping apartment; -- often in the plural with a singular meaning. Gower. Wits take lodgings in the sound of Bow. Pope. 3. Abiding place; harbor; cover. Fair bosom . . . the lodging of delight. Spenser. Lodging house, a house where lodgings are provided and let. -- Lodging room, a room in which a person lodges, esp. a hired room.

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  • BERTH
    Convenient sea room. A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside. The place where a ship lies when she is at anchor, or at a wharf. 2. An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employment. "He has a good berth."
  • CHAMBERING
    Lewdness. Rom. xiii. 13.
  • CHAMBERER
    1. One who attends in a chamber; a chambermaid. Chaucer. 2. A civilian; a carpetmonger.
  • LODGMENT
    The occupation and holding of a position, as by a besieging party; an instrument thrown up in a captured position; as, to effect a lodgment. (more info) 1. The act of lodging, or the state of being lodged. Any particle which is of size enough to
  • CHAMBERED
    Having a chamber or chambers; as, a chambered shell; a chambered gun.
  • BERTHA
    A kind of collar or cape worn by ladies.
  • APARTMENT HOUSE
    A building comprising a number of suites designed for separate housekeeping tenements, but having conveniences, such as heat, light, elevator service, etc., furnished in common; -- often distinguished in the United States from a flat house.
  • LODGEABLE
    1. That may be or can be lodged; as, so many persons are not lodgeable in this village. 2. Capable of affording lodging; fit for lodging in. " The lodgeable area of the earth." Jeffrey.
  • LODGING
    1. The act of one who, or that which, lodges. 2. A place of rest, or of temporary habitation; esp., a sleeping apartment; -- often in the plural with a singular meaning. Gower. Wits take lodgings in the sound of Bow. Pope. 3. Abiding place; harbor;
  • CHAMBERMAID
    1. A maidservant who has the care of chambers, making the beds, sweeping, cleaning the rooms, etc. 2. A lady's maid. Johnson.
  • DOMICILE
    A residence at a particular place accompanied with an intention to remain there for an unlimited time; a residence accepted as a final abode. Wharton. (more info) 1. An abode or mansion; a place of permanent residence, either of an individual or
  • BERTHAGE
    A place for mooring vessels in a dock or harbor.
  • APARTMENT
    appartare to separate, set apart; all fr. L. ad + pars, partis, part. 1. A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions. Fielding. 2. A set or suite of rooms. De Quincey. 3. A compartment. Pope.
  • HABITATION
    1. The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy. Denham. 2. Place of abode; settled dwelling; residence; house. The Lord . . . blesseth the habitation of the just. Prov. iii. 33.
  • ABODEMENT
    A foreboding; an omen. "Abodements must not now affright us." Shak.
  • RESIDENCE
    The residing of an incumbent on his benefice; -- opposed to nonresidence. 4. The place where anything rests permanently. But when a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all his regal power, he then, . . . fights
  • LODGER
    One who, or that which, lodges; one who occupies a hired room in another's house.
  • ABODE
    of Abide.
  • QUARTERSTAFF
    A long and stout staff formerly used as a weapon of defense and offense; -- so called because in holding it one hand was placed in the middle, and the other between the middle and the end.
  • BERTHIERITE
    A double sulphide of antimony and iron, of a dark steel-gray color.
  • UNLODGE
    To dislodge; to deprive of lodgment. Carew.
  • STAR-CHAMBER
    An ancient high court exercising jurisdiction in certain cases, mainly criminal, which sat without the intervention of a jury. It consisted of the king's council, or of the privy council only with the addition of certain judges. It could proceed
  • INCHAMBER
    To lodge in a chamber. Sherwood.
  • INHABITATION
    1. The act of inhabiting, or the state of being inhabited; indwelling. The inhabitation of the Holy Ghost. Bp. Pearson. 2. Abode; place of dwelling; residence. Milton. 3. Population; inhabitants. Sir T. Browne. The beginning of nations and
  • COMBUSTION CHAMBER
    A space over, or in front of , a boiler furnace where the gases from the fire become more thoroughly mixed and burnt. The clearance space in the cylinder of an internal combustion engine where the charge is compressed and ignited.
  • AIR CHAMBER
    1. A chamber or cavity filled with air, in an animal or plant. 2. A cavity containing air to act as a spring for equalizing the flow of a liquid in a pump or other hydraulic machine.
  • BEDCHAMBER
    A chamber for a bed; an apartment form sleeping in. Shak. Lords of the bedchamber, eight officers of the royal household, all of noble families, who wait in turn a week each. -- Ladies of the bedchamber, eight ladies, all titled, holding a similar

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