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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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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