lozenge

Etymology

Definitions

1. 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 [...].
   • How the junior partner of Hobbs and Dobbs leads her smiling to the carriage with the lozenge upon it, and the fat wheezy coachman!
   • His sloppy socks were of scarlet wool with lilac lozenges; […]
2. 2

   A small tablet (originally diamond-shaped) or medicated sweet used to ease a sore throat.

   • In the same way that Old Europe’s coffeehouses begat insurance companies, he says, today’s political careers beget an unhealthy relationship with throat lozenges.
3. 3

   To form into the shape of a lozenge.

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   1. 4

      To mark or emblazon with a lozenge.

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