'Lozenge' definitions:
Definition of 'lozenge'
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Definition of 'Lozenge'
From: GCIDE
- Lozenge \Loz"enge\ (l[o^]z"[e^]nj), n. [F. lozange, losange; perh. the same as OF. losengef flattery, praise, the heraldic sense being the oldest (cf. E. hatchment, blazon). Cf. Losenger, Laudable.]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A figure with four equal sides, having two acute and two obtuse angles; a rhomb. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Anything in the form of lozenge. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Specifically: A small cake of sugar and starch, flavored, and often medicated. -- originally in the form of a lozenge. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster] Lozenged
Definition of 'lozenge'
From: GCIDE
- Tablet \Ta"blet\, n. [F. tablette, dim. of table. See Table.]
- 1. A small table or flat surface. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint, draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a picture. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Hence, a small picture; a miniature. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 4. pl. A kind of pocket memorandum book. [1913 Webster]
- 5. A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague. [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Pharm.) A solid kind of electuary or confection, commonly made of dry ingredients with sugar, and usually formed into little flat squares; -- called also lozenge, and troche, especially when of a round or rounded form. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'lozenge'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- achievement,
- alerion,
- animal charge,
- annulet,
- argent,
- armorial bearings,
- armory,
- arms,
- azure,
- bandeau,
- bar,
- bar sinister,
- baton,
- bearings,
- bend,
- bend sinister,
- billet,
- blazon,
- blazonry,
- bolus,
- bordure,
- broad arrow,
- cadency mark,
- canton,
- capsule,
- chaplet,
- charge,
- chevron,
- chief,
- coat of arms,
- cockatrice,
- coronet,
- crescent,
- crest,
- cross,
- cross moline,
- crown,
- device,
- difference,
- differencing,
- eagle,
- ermine,
- ermines,
- erminites,
- erminois,
- escutcheon,
- falcon,
- fess,
- fess point,
- field,
- file,
- flanch,
- fleur-de-lis,
- fret,
- fur,
- fusil,
- garland,
- griffin,
- gules,
- gyron,
- hatchment,
- helmet,
- heraldic device,
- honor point,
- impalement,
- impaling,
- inescutcheon,
- label,
- lion,
- mantling,
- marshaling,
- martlet,
- mascle,
- metal,
- motto,
- mullet,
- nombril point,
- octofoil,
- or,
- ordinary,
- orle,
- pale,
- paly,
- pean,
- pheon,
- pill,
- purpure,
- quarter,
- quartering,
- rose,
- sable,
- saltire,
- scutcheon,
- shield,
- spread eagle,
- subordinary,
- tablet,
- tenne,
- tincture,
- torse,
- tressure,
- troche,
- unicorn,
- vair,
- vert,
- wreath,
- yale