Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DIS-LODGE'
DIS-LODGE', v.t. [dislodj'. dis and lodge.]
- To remove or drive from a lodge or place of rest; to drive from the place where a thing naturally rests or inhabits. Shells resting in the sea at a considerable depth, are not dislodged by storms.
- To drive from a place of retirement or retreat; as, to dislodge a cony or a deer.
- To drive from any place of rest or habitation, or from any station; as, to dislodge the enemy from their quarters, from a hill or wall.
- To remove an army to other quarters. – Shak.
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