Lozenge vs Losenger - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between lozenge and losenger

is that lozenge is a quadrilateral with sides of equal length (rhombus), having two acute and two obtuse angles while losenger is a flatterer; a deceiver; a cozener.

As a verb lozenge

is to form into the shape of a lozenge.

lozenge

English

Noun

(en noun)

(shapes) (heraldiccharge) A quadrilateral with sides of equal length (rhombus), having two acute and two obtuse angles.

* 1658 , Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus , Folio Society 2007, p. 167:

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 [...].

* 2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 14:

The floor is constructed from marble lozenges and triangles of every imaginable hue: yellow and pink and all manner of mottled and blotched shades, framed in white.

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

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Synonyms

* (quadrilateral) diamond (informal), rhomb, rhombus (most common in mathematics) * (medicated sweet) pastille, throat pastille, troche

Verb

(lozeng)

To form into the shape of a lozenge.

To mark or emblazon with a lozenge.

losenger

English

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A flatterer; a deceiver; a cozener.

(Chaucer)

To a fair pair of gallows, there to end their lives with shame, as a number of such other losengers had done. — Holinshed.

(Webster 1913)