Lozenge
['lɒzɪn(d)ʒ] or ['lɑzɪndʒ]
解释:
(n.) A diamond-shaped figure usually with the upper and lower angles slightly acute, borne upon a shield or escutcheon. Cf. Fusil.
(n.) A form of the escutcheon used by women instead of the shield which is used by men.
(n.) A figure with four equal sides, having two acute and two obtuse angles; a rhomb.
(n.) Anything in the form of lozenge.
(n.) A small cake of sugar and starch, flavored, and often medicated. -- originally in the form of a lozenge.
手打:斯坦
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Rhomb, rhombus, oblique-angled parallelogram (with equal sides).[2]. Troche.
柏格编辑
解释:
n. an oblique-angled parallelogram or a rhombus: a small cake of flavoured sugar originally lozenge or diamond shaped: (her.) the rhomb-shaped figure in which the arms of maids widows and deceased persons are borne.—adjs. Loz′enged formed in the shape of a lozenge; Loz′enge-shaped shaped like a lozenge or rhomb; Loz′engy (her.) divided into lozenge-shaped compartments.
编辑:奥马尔
娱乐性解释：
To dream of lozenges, foretells success in small matters. For a woman to eat or throw them away, foretells her life will be harassed by little spites from the envious.
伊妮德编辑
例句:
- It was the tortoise-shell lozenge-box, and Dorothea felt the color mounting to her cheeks. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- I have lost my tortoise-shell lozenge-box. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- How the junior partner of Hobbs and Dobbs leads her smiling to the carriage with the lozenge upon it, and the fat wheezy coachman! 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Even lozenges and pastilles are not free from fraud, but have a goodly proportion of narcotics, containing in some cases chloroform, morphine, and ether. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
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