Forms: see LODGE v.; also 4 lugyne, 6 loggyne, Sc. ludgene, lugin(g, lugeing; pl. 5 loggeyns, 6 Sc. luggenis. [f. LODGE v. + -ING1.]
1. The action of the verb LODGE (in various senses).
1525. Extracts Aberd. Reg. (1844), I. 110. The auld statut maid for the ressayt and luging of strangaris.
1576. Turberv., Venerie, 141. There is not so muche skill to be used in lodgyng of a Bucke as in harboring of a harte.
1652. Heylin, Cosmogr., Scot., 297. The custom of the Indians in giving to the Bramines the first nights lodging with their Brides.
1726. Leoni, Alberti’s Archit., I. 95 b. Houses … for the lodging of men, animals, or tools of agriculture.
1731. Tull, Horse-hoeing Husb., xiii. (1733), 150. One Cause is the lodging or falling of Corn.
1884. Manch. Exam., 30 June, 5/3. That the straw is short … is a great safeguard against ‘lodging’ in the event of heavy rainstorms.
† 2. Dwelling, abode. Phr. To make, take (up) one’s lodging: to take up one’s (temporary) abode.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 6212. Þis folk … innermar þe [Gött. þair] loging made.
1362. Langl., P. Pl., A. XII. 44. His loggyng is with Lyf that lord is of erthe.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, iii. (St. Andreas), 56. Þe house … quhar þai twa Þare lugyne in þe towne can ma.
1390. Gower, Conf., III. 62. Thei take logginge in the toun After the disposicion Wher as him thoghte best to duelle.
c. 1450. Merlin, 44. Go to a gode town and take thy logginge.
1535. Coverdale, Song Sol. vii. 11. Let vs go forth in to the felde, and take oure lodginge in the vyllages.
1601. Holland, Pliny (1634), I. 126. When he [sc. the Ganges] is once come into the flat plains and euen country … he taketh vp his lodging in a certain lake.
1611. Bible, Isa. x. 29. They haue taken vp their lodging at Geba.
3. Accommodation for rest at night or for residence; now only, accommodation in hired rooms or in a lodging-house (often in phr. board and lodging).
1432–50. trans. Higden (Rolls), IV. 465. To ȝiffe loggenge [L. hospitium] and other refreschenge to theyme.
1454. in Paston Lett., I. 265. The Duke of Somersetes herbergeour hath taken up all the loggyng that may be goten nere the Toure.
1533. Bellenden, Livy (1901), 190. He was ressauit in lugeing with Attius Tulius.
1535. Coverdale, John i. 38. Rabbi Where art thou at lodginge?
1588. Shaks., L. L. L., V. ii. 811. If frosts, and fasts, hard lodging, and thin weeds Nip not the gaudie blossomes of your Loue.
1611. Bible, Judg. xix. 15. There was no man that tooke them into his house to lodging.
1668. Davenant, Rivals, V. 48. My lodging it is on the Cold ground.
1776. Adam Smith, W. N. (1869), I. I. xi. 172. After food, clothing and lodging are the two great wants of mankind.
1849. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., iii. I. 327. An ample return for his food, his lodging, and his stipend.
1859. Tennyson, Elaine, 171. An old, dumb, myriad-wrinkled man, Who let him into lodging.
† b. Dwelling accommodation, house-room.
1775. Leoni, Palladio’s Archit. (1742), I. 49. One may make more or less Lodging than I have here drawn, according as … the master shall require.
† c. Material to lie or sleep on. Obs.
1683. Tryon, Way to Health, xvii. (1697), 402. Chaff-Beds, with Ticks of Canvas, and Quilts made of Wooll or Flocks to lay on them; which … is the most easie and pleasant Lodging that can be invented.
1691. Ray, Creation, II. (1722), 371. Their Feathers serve to stuff our Beds and Pillows, yielding us soft and warm Lodging.
4. concr. A place or building in which a person lodges or resides; a dwelling-place, abode; † a bedroom (obs.); † military quarters, encampment (obs.). (In the sense of ‘temporary lodging-place,’ ‘hired rooms,’ commonly superseded by the pl. lodgings: see 5 b.)
(Castle) of lodgings: (one) used as a residence.
13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., B. 887. Þay lest of lotez logging any lysoun to fynde.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, VI. 1. The King is went till his luging.
c. 1380. Sir Ferumb., 3063. Þanne þay gunne to pryke vaste toward hure logyngge.
c. 1450. Merlin, 43. He come in to oure loigginge in Northumberlonde while we satte at oure mete.
a. 1533. Ld. Berners, Huon, xi. 31. He was serchyd for in his logynge.
1538. Leland, Itin. (1745), I. 84. Raby is the largest Castel of Logginges in al the North Cuntery.
a. 1548. Hall, Chron., Hen. VII., 23. They that went before inquyred after ynnes and lodgynges as though they woulde repose them selfes there all nighte.
1583. Leg. Bp. St. Androis, 659. The menstrallis and the bairdis … About his ludgene loudlie played.
1588. Dr. A. Perne, Will, in Willis & Clark, Cambridge (1886), I. 28. The Colledge Librairie … to be newe builded at the east end of the Masters Lodginge longewayes towardes the Streate.
1596. Shaks., Tam. Shr., Ind. i. 49. Burne sweet Wood to make the Lodging sweete.
1604. Drayton, Owle, 1105. And on each small Branch of this large-limb’d Oke, Their pretty Lodgings carelessly they tooke.
1618. Beaum. & Fl., Loyal Subj., II. v. The rest [of the rooms] above are lodgings all.
1637. J. Taylor (Water P.) (title), The Carriers Cosmographie: or A Briefe Relation, of The Innes, Ordinaries, Hosteries, and other lodgings in or neere London.
1712. Steele, Spect., No. 264, ¶ 1. He lives in a Lodging of Ten Shillings a Week.
1798. Monthly Mag., VI. 436. ‘A lodging all within itself, with divers casements, to set,’ is the common stile of a bill for letting a house in Edinburgh.
1814. Scott, Ld. of Isles, V. xxi. In silvan lodging close bestow’d, He placed the page.
1823. Galt, Gilhaize, I. iii. 30. Going straight up the walk to the door of a lodging, to the which this was the parterre and garden.
1849. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., iv. I. 479. Hacket … had already secured every inn and lodging.
1883. R. W. Dixon, Mano, II. i. 63. His eye fell fiercely on me, when my way I found into his lodging.
transf. & fig. a. 1586. Sidney, Apol. Poetrie (Arb.), 29. Our degenerate soules made worse by theyr clayey lodgings.
1605. Shaks., Lear, II. ii. 179. Not to behold This shamefull lodging [sc. the stocks].
1645. Waller, A la Malade, 23. The breaches made In that faire Lodging [the body] still more clear Make the bright Guest your Soule appear.
1646. Jenkyn, Remora, 10. Without it [Religion], Kingdoms are but … lurking places for theeves, not lodgings for the pure God.
1658. Sir T. Browne, Hydriot., iii. (1736), 31. Christians … acknowledged their Bodies to be the Lodging of Christ.
1697. Dryden, Virg. Georg., IV. 64. Plaister thou their chinky Hives with Clay, And leafy Branches o’er their Lodgings lay.
† b. The portion of space assigned to one man in a camp. Obs.
1598. Barret, Theor. Warres, 155. Vnto euery man at Armes we will allow 8 lodgings; and vnto euery roome or lodging we will give 50 superficiall foote of ground.
† c. A ward in a hospital; a cell in a prison.
1612. New Life Virginia (1897), 9. An hospital with fourscore lodgings, and beds already sent to furnish them.
1679–88. Secr. Serv. Moneys of Chas. II. & Jas. II. (Camd. Soc.), 133. For strengthening divers of the prison lodgings with iron bars, bolts, and locks.
† d. A square on a chess-board, as being the ‘place’ of a particular piece. Obs.
1562. Rowbotham, Playe Cheastes, E iv b. Thou shalte cause thy knight to retyre to the lodging of thy Quene.
† e. Hunting. The lair of a buck, stag, etc. Obs.
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, I. (1590), 39 b. The stagge thought it better to trust to the nimblenes of his feete, then to the slender fortification of his lodging.
1610. Guillim, Heraldry, III. xvi. (1611), 147. They doe readilie discover … the Tracks, Fourmes, and lodgings of beasts of chase.
5. Specialized uses of the plural.
† a. Military quarters. Obs.
1475. Bk. Noblesse, 69. The duc made redy the ordenaunce wyth shot of grete gounys amongys the rebells and shot of arowes myghtelye, that they kept her loggeyns.
1548. Hall, Chron., Hen. VIII., 28. For his other lodgynges he had great and goodly tentes of blewe.
1568. Grafton, Chron., I. 8. The first inventer of the Portative tents or lodgings.
1614. Raleigh, Hist. World, V. iii. 463. [They] fell vpon him, with hope to take him vnprepared, whilest he was making his lodgings.
1665. Manley, Grotius’ Low-C. Warres, 839. Lodgings were made for the Souldiers under Ground in the Form of Trenches.
1677. W. Hubbard, Narrative, 55. Very cold Lodgings, hard Marches, Scarcity of Provision.
b. A room or rooms hired for accommodation and residence in the house of another (in mod. usage, not in an inn or hotel).
1640. D’Ewes, in Lett. Lit. Men (Camden), 165. I have promised to take lodgings close by him in the Coven Garden.
1712–4. Pope, Rape Lock, IV. 118. Sooner shall grass in Hyde-park Circus grow, And wits take lodgings in the sound of Bow.
1751. Earl Orrery, Remarks Swift (1752), 21. He used to lye at night in houses where he found written over the door Lodgings for a penny.
1787. Charlotte Smith, Romance Real Life, I. 220. She discharged her lodgings … and went to another part of Paris.
1849. Thackeray, Pendennis, lxvii. (1863), 585. The house may be yours: but the lodgings are mine and you will have the goodness to leave them.
1861. Mrs. J. H. Riddell, City & Suburb, II. vi. 107. Life in lodgings, at the best of times, is not a peculiarly exhilarating state of existence.
c. An official residence. Now the name given to the houses of the heads of certain Oxford colleges. (Cf. quot. 1588 in 4, and LODGE sb. 8.) Also Judges’ lodgings: the house that (in some assize towns) is occupied by the judges during the assizes.
1661. Wood, Life, 3 May. They all went to the warden’s lodgings, and gave him possession.
1826. Act 7 Geo. IV., c. 63 § 1. Provisions … for providing Lodgings for the Accommodation of His Majesty’s Judges of Assize.
1827. Oxford Guide, 38. Queen’s College…. Over the west cloister are two stories, containing … the Provost’s Lodgings [etc.].
1895. Strand Mag., March, 320. The judge’s lodgings are usually a fine old house set apart for the purpose.
6. attrib. and Comb., as lodging-hunting, -lease, -letter, -place, -seeker; lodging-car U.S., ‘a car fitted with bunks for hands at work on a railway line’ (Knight, Dict. Mech., Suppl.); † lodging-chamber = LODGING-ROOM b; † lodging-fellow, one who shares the same lodgings with another; lodging-money, an allowance made by government to all officers and soldiers for whom there is not sufficient accommodation in barracks (1872–6 Voyle, Milit. Dict.). Also LODGING-HOUSE, -ROOM.
1645. Evelyn, Diary (1879), I. 220. The hall, chapell, and great number of *lodging chambers are remarkable.
1687. Dr. Smith, in Magd. Coll. (O.H.S.), 162. Lodging-chambers.
a. 1490. Botoner, Itin. (1778), 374. Sir Phelip Braunche [etc.] … apud le sege de Roun; fuerunt le *logeyng felowys.
1879. ‘Edna Lyall,’ Won by Waiting, ix. It was certainly *lodging hunting under difficulties.
1802–12. Bentham, Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827), II. 483. For each distinct species of contract let a distinct species of paper be provided … as for instance … *lodging-lease paper.
1851. Mayhew, Lond. Labour, I. 366. A *lodging-letter … will … drive keen bargains for plates, dishes, or wash-hand basins and jugs.
1802. C. James, Milit. Dict., *Lodging money.
14[?]. Epiph., in Tundale’s Vis. (1843), 116. Whyll thei slepped at her *loggyng place Ther com an angell apperyng with grette lyght.
1611. Bible, Josh. iv. 3. In the lodging place where you shall lodge this night.
1878. J. Buller, 40 Years in N. Z., 70. In a small rush church we met with a lodging-place.
1885. R. L. & F. Stevenson, Dynamiter, 99. A large number of *lodging-seekers.
