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loz⋅enge

  [loz-inj]
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–noun
1. a small, flavored tablet made from sugar or syrup, often medicated, originally diamond-shaped.
2. Geometry Now Rare. diamond (def. 8).
3. Heraldry.
a. a diamond-shaped charge.
b. a diamond-shaped shield bearing the arms of a woman.
Origin:
1300–50; ME losenge < MF, OF, perh. < Gaulish *lausa flat stone + -enge < Gmc -inga -ing 3
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loz·enge   (lŏz'ĭnj)   
n.  

  1. A small, medicated candy intended to be dissolved slowly in the mouth to lubricate and soothe irritated tissues of the throat.

    1. A four-sided planar figure with a diamondlike shape; a rhombus that is not a square.

    2. Something having this shape, especially a heraldic device.


[Middle English, rhombus, from Old French losenge, perhaps of Celtic origin.]
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Word Origin & History

lozenge 
c.1327, from O.Fr. losenge "windowpane, small square cake," etc., used for many flat quadrilateral things. Cognates in Sp. losanje, Catalan llosange, It. lozanga. Probably from a pre-Roman Celtic language, perhaps Iberian *lausa or Gaul. *lausa "flat stone" (cf. Prov. lausa, Sp. losa, Catalan llosa, Port. lousa "slab, tombstone"), from a pre-Celtic language. Originally in Eng. a term in heraldry; meaning "small cake or tablet (originally diamond-shaped) of medicine and sugar, etc., meant to be held in the mouth and dissolved" is from 1530.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: loz·enge
Pronunciation: 'läz-&nj
Function: noun
: a small usually sweetened solid piece of medicated material of anyof various shapes that is designed to be held in the mouth for slow dissolution and often contains a demulcent lozenges> called also pastille, troche
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

lozenge loz·enge (lŏz'ĭnj)
n.
A small, medicated candy intended to be dissolved slowly in the mouth to lubricate and soothe irritated tissues of the throat.

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