LOZENGE

n.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

A diamond-shaped figure usually with the upper and lower angles slightly acute, borne upon a shield or escutcheon. Cf. Fusil.

2.
n.

A form of the escutcheon used by women instead of the shield which is used by men.

3.
n.

A figure with four equal sides, having two acute and two obtuse angles; a rhomb.

4.
n.

Anything in the form of lozenge.

5.
n.

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.

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