Lozenge

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A small, medicated candy intended to be dissolved slowly in the mouth to lubricate and soothe irritated tissues of the throat.
  • n. A four-sided planar figure with a diamondlike shape; a rhombus that is not a square.
  • n. Something having this shape, especially a heraldic device.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A quadrilateral with sides of equal length (rhombus), having two acute and two obtuse angles.
  • n. A small tablet (originally diamond-shaped) or medicated sweet used to ease a sore throat.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n.
  • n. A diamond-shaped figure usually with the upper and lower angles slightly acute, borne upon a shield or escutcheon. Cf. fusil.
  • n. A form of the escutcheon used by women instead of the shield which is used by men.
  • n. A figure with four equal sides, having two acute and two obtuse angles; a rhomb.
  • n. Anything in the form of lozenge.
  • n. A small cake of sugar and starch, flavored, and often medicated. -- originally in the form of a lozenge.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A plane figure with four equal sides, having two acute and two obtuse angles, also called a diamond; a rhomb; also, formerly, any oblique parallelogram.
  • n. Somothing resembling such a figure in form. :
  • n. A small cake of sugar, or confection, often medicated, originally in the form of a rhomb, but now variously shaped.
  • n. A pane of glass for window-glazing, either lozenge-shaped or square, but intended to be set diagonally; a quarrel.
  • n. An envelop-blank cut out by a punching-machine.
  • n. In the cutting of brilliants, one of the four quoins of the upper surface or crown. See quoin.
  • n. A spangle.
  • In decorative art, divided by diagonal lines into diamonds or lozenges: a common distribution of decorative design in the fourteenth century: as, a lozenge pattern.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a small aromatic or medicated candy
  • n. a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet
  • Cross Reference
    Variant
    fusil   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    rhomb    pastil    tabloid    tablet    tablette    drop    peppermint    jujube    rhombus    diamond   
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