loz·enge /ˈlɑzṇʤ ||sṇʤ/
菱形,菱形花紋,菱形窗玻璃
loz·enge /ˈlɑzṇʤ/ 名詞
錠劑,糖錠
Loz·enge n.
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.
2. A figure with four equal sides, having two acute and two obtuse angles; a rhomb.
3. Anything in the form of lozenge.
4. Specifically: 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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lozenge
n 1: a small aromatic or medicated candy
2: a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet [syn: pill,
tablet, tab]