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Webster 1913 Edition
Lozenge
Loz′enge
(lŏz′ĕnj)
, Noun.
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.]
Walpole.
– Lozenge-molding
(Arch.)
, a kind of molding, used in Norman architecture, characterized by lozenge-shaped ornaments.
Webster 1828 Edition
Lozenge
LOZ'ENGE
,Noun.
1.
Originally, a figure with four equal sides, having two acute and two obtuse angles; a rhomb.2.
In heraldry, a four-cornered figure, resembling a pane of glass in old casements.3.
Among jewelers, lozenges are common to brilliants and rose diamonds. In brilliants, they are formed by the meeting of the skill and the star facets on the bezil; in the latter, by the meeting of the facets in the horizontal ribs of the crown.4.
A form of medicine in small pieces, to be chewed or held in the mouth till melted.5.
In confectionary, a small cake of preserved fruit, or of sugar, &c.Definition 2024
lozenge
lozenge
English
Lozenges (1)
Noun
lozenge (plural lozenges)
- (shapes) (heraldry) A quadrilateral with sides of equal length (rhombus), having two acute and two obtuse angles.
- 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society 2007, p. 167:
- Wherein the decussis is made within a longilaterall square, with opposite angles, acute and obtuse at the intersection; and so upon progression making a Rhombus or Lozenge figuration [...].
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 14:
- The floor is constructed from marble lozenges and triangles of every imaginable hue: yellow and pink and all manner of mottled and blotched shades, framed in white.
- 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society 2007, p. 167:
- A small tablet (originally diamond-shaped) or medicated sweet used to ease a sore throat.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 3, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.
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Synonyms
- (quadrilateral): diamond (informal), rhomb, rhombus (most common in mathematics)
- (medicated sweet): pastille, throat pastille, troche
Translations
rhombus
medicated sweet
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Verb
lozenge (third-person singular simple present lozenges, present participle lozenging, simple past and past participle lozenged)
- (transitive) To form into the shape of a lozenge.
- (transitive) To mark or emblazon with a lozenge.