Vocabulary : Locution to Lodge

Locution : Speech or discourse; a phrase; a form or mode of expression.
Locutory : A room for conversation; especially, a room in monasteries, where the monks were allowed to converse.
Lodde : The capelin.
Lode : A water course or way; a reach of water. ;; A metallic vein; any regular vein or course, whether metallic or not.
Lodemanage : Pilotage; skill of a pilot or loadsman. ;; Pilotage.

Lode-ship : An old name for a pilot boat.
Lodesman : A pilot. ;; Same as Loadsman.
Lodestar : A star that leads; a guiding star; esp., the polestar; the cynosure. ;; Same as Loadstar.
Lodestone : A piece of magnetic iron ore possessing polarity like a magnetic needle. See Magnetite. ;; Same as Loadstone.
Lodge : A shelter in which one may rest; as: (a) A shed; a rude cabin; a hut; as, an Indian's lodge. ;; A small dwelling house, as for a gamekeeper or gatekeeper of an estate. ;; A den or cave. ;; The meeting room of an association; hence, the regularly constituted body of members which meets there; as, a masonic lodge. ;; The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college. ;; The space at the mouth of a level next the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; -- called also platt. ;; A collection of objects lodged together. ;; A family of North American Indians, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge, -- as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons; as, the tribe consists of about two hundred lodges, that is, of about a thousand individuals. ;; To rest or remain a lodge house, or other shelter; to rest; to stay; to abide; esp., to sleep at night; as, to lodge in York Street. ;; To fall or lie down, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the

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