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Lozenge   /lˈɔzəndʒ/   Listen
noun
Lozenge  n.  
1.
(Her.)
(a)
A diamond-shaped figure usually with the upper and lower angles slightly acute, borne upon a shield or escutcheon. Cf. Fusil.
(b)
A form of the escutcheon used by women instead of the shield which is used by men.
2.
A figure with four equal sides, having two acute and two obtuse angles; a rhomb.
3.
Anything in the form of lozenge.
4.
Specifically: A small cake of sugar and starch, flavored, and often medicated. originally in the form of a lozenge.
Lozenge coach, the coach of a dowager, having her coat of arms painted on a lozenge. (Obs.)
Lozenge-molding (Arch.), a kind of molding, used in Norman architecture, characterized by lozenge-shaped ornaments.






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"Lozenge" Quotes from Famous Books



... filaments imbedded in the mucous membrane. The nerves of taste are both general and special in their functions. If the general sensibility of the nerves of taste is unduly excited, the function of sensibility is lost for some time. If a peppermint lozenge is taken into the mouth, it strongly excites the general sensibilities of taste, and the power of distinguishing between special flavors is lost for a few moments. A nauseous drug may then be swallowed without experiencing any ...
— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English • R. V. Pierce

... "At Benty Grange, in Derbyshire, an Anglo-Saxon barrow, opened in 1848, contained a coat of mail. 'The iron chain work consists of a large number of links of two kinds attached to each other by small rings half an inch in diameter; one kind flat and lozenge-shaped ... the others all of one kind, but of different lengths.'"—Br., ...
— Beowulf • James A. Harrison and Robert Sharp, eds.

... umbrella by his side, he took a small packet from his waistcoat pocket, and helped himself to a lozenge. 'May I offer you one?' he said, holding out the packet in a somewhat shaky hand. 'You won't find ...
— Chatterbox, 1905. • Various

... a shady grove Sat my Juliana, Lozenges I gave my love, Ipecacuanha— Full twenty from the lozenge box The greedy nymph did pick; Then, sighing sadly, said to me— My Damon, I am ...
— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie

... elevation, angular distance, angular velocity; trigonometry, goniometry; altimetry^; clinometer, graphometer^, goniometer; theodolite; sextant, quadrant; dichotomy. triangle, trigon^, wedge; rectangle, square, lozenge, diamond; rhomb, rhombus; quadrangle, quadrilateral; parallelogram; quadrature; polygon, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, oxygon^, decagon. pyramid, cone. Platonic bodies; cube, rhomboid; tetrahedron, pentahedron, hexahedron, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget


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