Lozenge
noun, verb ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 A thin rhombus, having two acute and two obtuse angles.
"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 [...]."
- 2 a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet wordnet
- 3 A small tablet (originally diamond-shaped) or medicated sweet used to ease a sore throat.
"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."
- 4 a small aromatic or medicated candy wordnet
- 1 To form into the shape of a lozenge. transitive
- 2 To mark or emblazon with a lozenge. transitive
Example
More examples"A lozenge is a square deformed indefinably, generally by heat."
Etymology
From Middle English losenge, from Old French losenge (“rhombus”), of uncertain origin. See the Old French for more.
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