–noun

1.	a small, makeshift or crude shelter or habitation, as of boughs, poles, skins, earth, or rough boards; cabin or hut.

2.	a house used as a temporary residence, as in the hunting season.

3.	a summer cottage.

4.	a house or cottage, as in a park or on an estate, occupied by a gatekeeper, caretaker, gardener, or other employee.

5.	a resort hotel, motel, or inn.

6.	the main building of a camp, resort hotel, or the like.

7.	the meeting place of a branch of certain fraternal organizations.

8.	the members composing the branch: The lodge is planning a picnic.

9.	any of various North American Indian dwellings, as a tepee or long house. Compare earth lodge.

10.	the Indians who live in such a dwelling or a family or unit of North American Indians.

11.	the home of a college head at Cambridge University, England.

12.	the den of an animal or group of animals, esp. beavers.

–verb (used without object)

13.	to have a habitation or quarters, esp. temporarily, as in a hotel, motel, or inn: We lodged in a guest house.

14.	to live in rented quarters in another's house: He lodged with a local family during his college days.

15.	to be fixed, implanted, or caught in a place or position; come to rest; stick: The bullet lodged in his leg.

–verb (used with object)

16.	to furnish with a habitation or quarters, esp. temporarily; accommodate: Can you lodge us for the night?

17.	to furnish with a room or rooms in one's house for payment; have as a lodger: a boardinghouse that lodges oil workers.

18.	to serve as a residence, shelter, or dwelling for; shelter: The château will lodge the ambassador during his stay.

19.	to put, store, or deposit, as in a place, for storage or keeping; stow: to lodge one's valuables in a hotel safe.

20.	to bring or send into a particular place or position.

21.	to house or contain: The spinal canal lodges and protects the spinal cord.

22.	to vest (power, authority, etc.).

23.	to put or bring (information, a complaint, etc.) before a court or other authority.

24.	to beat down or lay flat, as vegetation in a storm: A sudden hail had lodged the crops.

25.	to track (a deer) to its lair.

A star in the constellation Lyra and one of the five brightest stars in the night sky. It is a white main-sequence star in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, with an apparent magnitude of 0.04. Vega, along with Altair and Deneb, form the Summer Triangle asterism. Scientific name: Alpha Lyra.