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must be the opposite of hogwash, and i just found a word that has so many different meaning.. its as if it the definations where submitted for hogwash!
A) Lozenge (n.) A diamond-shaped figure usually with the upper and lower angles slightly acute, borne upon a shield or escutcheon. Cf. Fusil.
B) Lozenge (n.) A form of the escutcheon used by women instead of the shield which is used by men.
C) Lozenge (n.) A figure with four equal sides, having two acute and two obtuse angles; a rhomb.
D) Lozenge (n.) Anything in the form of lozenge.
E) Lozenge (n.) A small cake of sugar and starch, flavored, and often medicated. -- originally in the form of a lozenge.
F) Lozenged (a.) Alt. of Lozenge-shaped
G) Lozenge-shaped (a.) Having the form of a lozenge or rhomb.
H) Lozengy (a.) Divided into lozenge-shaped compartments, as the field or a bearing, by lines drawn in the direction of the bend sinister.
several of the american dictionaries just have "candy or medication to sooth a throat".
i came across the word being used to define tradisional embroideries of a diamond shape..(think of the diamond on a deck of playing cards)
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From a dictionary of mathematical terms:
"Ahe word parallelogram, according to its etymology, signifies parallel lines; it no more
suits the figure of four sides than it does that of six, of eight, &c. which have their opposite
sides parallel. In like manner, the word parallelopipedon signifies parallel planes; it no more
designates the solid with six faces, than the solid with eight, ten, &c. of which the opposite
faces are parallel. The names parallelogram and parallelelopipedon*, have the additional
inconvenience of being very long. Perhaps, therefore, it would be advantageous to banish them
altogether from geometry; and to substitute in their stead, the names rhombus and rhomboid,
retaining the term lozenge, for quadrilaterals whose sides are all equal.
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How many of these could be used in sentences?
B) My wife is insured by Blue Cross/Blue Lozenge.
E) Day will break and you'll awake and start to bake a lozenge...
D) or F) or G) Lozenges are a girl's best friend.
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