(a.) Lying down; -- used of beasts of the chase, as couchant is of beasts of prey.
Example Sentences:
(1) That’s when you heard the ‘boom’.” Teto Wilson also claimed to have witnessed the shooting, posting on Facebook on Sunday morning that he and some friends had been at the Elk lodge, outside which the shooting took place.
(2) About 40% of the claims were lodged in Germany compared with only 4% in Britain.
(3) Platelets appear to be involved in tumor cell lodgement, since thrombocytopenia significantly reduces the number of lodged tumor cells.
(4) It has emerged that Kelvin MacKenzie , who attacked the decision by Channel 4 News in his Sun column and called on readers to complain to the media regulator, did not in fact end up lodging a complaint himself.
(5) A custody or visitation dispute occurred in 12 (39%) of 31 sexual abuse complaints lodged against a parent.
(6) Before bids being lodged, sources had indicated that Sky was not prepared to make a knockout bid to snatch back the rights from BT, which has justified the expense to customers and shareholders as “financially disciplined”.
(7) It was shown that CO2 levels previously recorded in the winter lodges of this species are sufficient to reduce postdive oxygen consumption and rate of rewarming in unrestrained animals.
(8) The catheter fragments were lodged in the pulmonary artery in 3 cases and in the right atrium in the others.
(9) The venue was originally home to Marlesford Lodge school, which was remodelled as a boarding school in 1884.
(10) But in a last-ditch effort, his lawyers lodged an appeal for clemency on Monday morning.
(11) Griffin vowed to lodge a complaint at the "unfair" way the Question Time programme was produced, despite the BNP's claims that his appearance sparked the "biggest single recruitment night in the party's history".
(12) Scarborough council said leaving the houses standing could cause a domino-effect down the steep slope above the picturesque harbour where the explorer Captain James Cook lodged and learned his seafaring skills.
(13) His greatest passion on the trek up, apart from finding a 3G signal and playing rap music from a speaker on the back of his pack, was playing Tigers and Goats, a local version of chess, taking on all-comers – climbers, Sherpas, trekkers, random elderly porters passing through the lodges.
(14) It is the latest attack on the government from the Hungarian economist, whose previous criticism of David Cameron's "nasty" looking restrictions on benefits for foreigners led the angry prime minister to lodge a formal complaint.
(15) However, an increasing body of experts argues something must be done to arrest disengagement by winning over this so-called Generation Y, born after 1982, who are predicted to be poorer than their parents, and according to Ipsos Mori research, have a record low level of trust in their fellow man.Guy Lodge, of the IPPR thinktank, makes the case for an even more radical solution – compulsory voting for first-timers.
(16) For that you will be expected to provide full board and lodging.
(17) The angioarchitecture of the cortical gray-white junction suggests that an air embolism might preferentially lodge in this border zone, and thus ischemia of the border might go unrecognized if one depended only on the difference in average blood flow to define the gray-white junction.
(18) He also lodged a patent for a new vaccine against measles called Transfer Factor, which he claimed could also be a treatment for inflammatory bowel disease.
(19) It is unknown whether metastasis of cancer to cancer is a random occurrence or is due to selective lodging, survival and growth within another malignant neoplasm.
(20) Preliminary murder charges have been lodged against two men – both students at Islamic religious schools, who were arrested at the scene after being overpowered by bystanders – and against a third assailant who fled and has yet to be found, an officer said.
Lodger
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, lodges; one who occupies a hired room in another's house.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ursula Nevin, 24, of Stretford, slept through the riots, but was jailed for five months after admitting handling stolen goods looted by her lodger.
(2) But as "excluded occupiers" without tenancies, lodgers have very few rights and can be easily evicted if something goes wrong (the landlord only has to give "reasonable notice").
(3) Get a lodger in If it's just your clothes horse that lives in the spare room, consider getting in a real person.
(4) Last year his mother, her boyfriend and their lodger were convicted of causing or allowing his death.
(5) "The government is advising these families to consider taking in a lodger to make up the financial shortfall, but none of these families have a spare room available because the rooms are already being used.
(6) The rise of the landlord-lodger arrangement could help utilise the estimated 15 million unused bedrooms in England alone, giving renters more options and helping squeezed families and retirees cope with the higher cost of living.
(7) The idea of taking in a lodger is as old as the hills, but there are now a host of other ways to make a bit of money out of allowing people to stay in your home – on terms that suit your needs and lifestyle.
(8) Other support includes advising on handling debt and avoiding payday loan companies; working with the local credit union; looking at ways to increase self-esteem, confidence and employability skills to help residents secure employment; helping vulnerable people fill in forms; and discussing options such as taking in a lodger.
(9) A lodger can occupy a single room or an entire floor of your home.
(10) According to the latest figures from insurance firm LV=, the number of people renting a spare room has nearly doubled in the past five years: 2.7% of UK homeowners now have a lodger, compared with 1.4% in 2009.
(11) The plumber and gas engineer became a lodger in London after splitting up with a girlfriend over a year ago.
(12) Theresa May's scheme requiring all private landlords to check the immigration status of new tenants and lodgers has run straight into trouble with the Liberal Democrats , who have voiced concerns that it will increase homelessness and drive migrants underground into the hands of unscrupulous landlords.
(13) The last place I was a lodger wasn't a great - a little bit cold and regimental.
(14) Housing charity Shelter is backing calls to raise the threshold to £7,500 to match the reality of today's rents (the average annual rent for a room let to a lodger stands at £5,593, rising to £7,667 in London).
(15) Homeowners will be able to receive as much as £7,500 in rent from lodgers without having to pay tax, compared with the current ‘rent a room’ limit of £4,250.
(16) The family is planning to use the loft area as an extra bedroom for a lodger to raise money.
(17) Yet a growing number of homeowners are enjoying a tax-free income boost by taking in a lodger.
(18) A woman who spent a week in prison separated from her two young children after she handled a pair of shorts looted from Manchester city centre by her lodger during the riots has been freed on appeal.
(19) Opening the case, Michael Morley said Nevin – who has no previous convictions – had the "misfortune" to have Gemma Corbett as a lodger.
(20) This means that just over 70% of your before-tax salary would be going on mortgage repayments which doesn't leave much change for other bills even taking into account rent from a lodger and possible maintenance payments for your children from your ex.