LODGE  , a dwelling-

place, small and usually temporary, a hut, booth or tent . The word was in M . Eng. logge, from Fr. loge, arbour, in modern French a hut; also box in a theatre; the French word, like the Italian loggia, came from the Med . Lat. laubia or lobia, the sheltered promenade in a cloister, from which English " lobby " is derived . The Latin is of Teutonic origin from the word which survives in the Mod . Ger . Laube, an arbour, but which earlier was used for any hut, booth, &c . The word is probably ultimately from the root which appears in " leaf," meaning a rough shelter of foliage or boughs . The word is especially used of a house built either in a forest or away from habitation, where people stay for the purpose of sport, as a " hunting lodge," " shooting lodge," &c . The most frequent use of the word is of a small building, usually placed at the entrance to an estate or park and inhabited by a dependant of the owner . In the same sense the word means the room or box inhabited by the porter of a college, factory or public institution . Among Freemasons and other societies the " lodge " is the name given to the meeting-place of the members of the branch or district, and is applied to the members collectively as " a meeting of the lodge." The governing body of the Freemasons presided over by the grand master is called the " Grand Lodge." At the university of Cambridge the house where the head of a college lives is called the " lodge." Formerly the word was used of the den or lair of an animal, but is now only applied to that of the beaver and the otter .

It is also applied to the tent of a

North American Indian, a wigwam or tepee, and to the number of inhabitants of such a tent . In mining the term is used of a subterraneous reservoir made at the bottom of the pit, or at different levels in the shaft for the purpose of draining the mine . It is used also of a room or landing-place next to the shaft, for discharging ore, &c .