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ensconce
English
Etymology
From en- +? sconce, “to place in a sconce (“fortification”)”.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?n?sk?ns/
- (US) enPR: ?n-skäns', IPA(key): /?n?sk?ns/
- Rhymes: -?ns, -?ns
Verb
ensconce (third-person singular simple present ensconces, present participle ensconcing, simple past and past participle ensconced)
- (transitive) To place in a secure environment.
- (intransitive) To settle comfortably.
- […] Major was already ensconced on his bed of straw, under a lantern which hung from a beam.
Usage notes
Particularly used in form ensconced, as in “she was ensconced in an armchair.”
Synonyms
- (settle comfortably): cuddle up
Translations
Further reading
- ensconce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- ensconce in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “ensconce”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
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lodge
English
Etymology
From Middle English logge, from Old French loge (“arbour, covered walk-way”) (compare cognate Medieval Latin lobia, laubia), from Frankish *laubij? (“shelter; arbour”), from Proto-West Germanic *laub (“leaf; folliage”) (whence English leaf). Cognate with Old High German louba (“porch, gallery”) (German Laube (“bower, arbor”)), Old High German loub (“leaf, foliage”), Old English l?af (“leaf, foliage”). Doublet of loggia and lobby.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /l?d?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /l?d?/
- Rhymes: -?d?
Noun
lodge (plural lodges)
- A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
- Short for porter's lodge: a building or room near the entrance of an estate or building, especially (Britain, Canada) as a college mailroom.
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 54:
- ...he walked across Hawthorn Tree Court on his way to the porter's lodge... At the lodge he cleared his pigeon-hole.
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 54:
- A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.
- (US) A local chapter of a trade union.
- A rural hotel or resort, an inn.
- A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
- A den or cave.
- The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
- (mining) The space at the mouth of a level next to the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; called also platt.
- A collection of objects lodged together.
- the Maldives, a famous lodge of islands
- An indigenous American home, such as tipi or wigwam. By extension, the people who live in one such home; a household.
- (historical) A family of Native Americans, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge; as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons.
Derived terms
- Deer Lodge
- healing lodge
- hunting lodge
- Medicine Lodge
- porter's lodge
- Red Lodge
- sweat lodge
- ski lodge
- juggler lodge
Descendants
- ? Dutch: lodge
Translations
Verb
lodge (third-person singular simple present lodges, present participle lodging, simple past and past participle lodged)
- (intransitive) To be firmly fixed in a specified position.
- I've got some spinach lodged between my teeth.
- The bullet missed its target and lodged in the bark of a tree.
- (intransitive) To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.
- The detective Sherlock Holmes lodged in Baker Street.
- (intransitive) To stay in any place or shelter.
- (transitive) To drive (an animal) to covert.
- 1819, John Mayer, The Sportsman's Directory, or Park and Gamekeeper's Companion
- This is the time that the horseman are flung out, not having the cry to lead them to the death. When quadruped animals of the venery or hunting kind are at rest, the stag is said to be harboured, the buck lodged, the fox kennelled, the badger earthed, the otter vented or watched, the hare formed, and the rabbit set. When you find and rouse up the stag and buck, they are said to be imprimed: […]
- 1819, John Mayer, The Sportsman's Directory, or Park and Gamekeeper's Companion
- (transitive) To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.
- (transitive) To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.
- (transitive) To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).
- (intransitive) To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
- The heavy rain caused the wheat to lodge.
- (transitive) To cause to flatten, as grass or grain.
Synonyms
- (to stay in any place or shelter): stay over, stop; See also Thesaurus:sojourn
Translations
Derived terms
- ecolodge
- lodger
- lodging
- lodgement
References
Anagrams
- Le God, e-gold, glode, golde, ogled
French
Noun
lodge m (plural lodges)
- lodge (tourist residence, especially in Africa)
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