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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a small aromatic or medicated candy;

2. a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet;
[syn: pill, lozenge, tablet, tab]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Lozenge \Loz"enge\ (l[o^]z"[e^]nj), n. [F. lozange, losange; perh. the same as OF. losengef flattery, praise, the heraldic sense being the oldest (cf. E. hatchment, blazon). Cf. Losenger, Laudable.] 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. [1913 Webster] 2. A figure with four equal sides, having two acute and two obtuse angles; a rhomb. [1913 Webster] 3. Anything in the form of lozenge. [1913 Webster] 4. Specifically: A small cake of sugar and starch, flavored, and often medicated. -- originally in the form of a lozenge. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Lozenged
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Tablet \Ta"blet\, n. [F. tablette, dim. of table. See Table.] 1. A small table or flat surface. [1913 Webster] 2. A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint, draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a picture. [1913 Webster] 3. Hence, a small picture; a miniature. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] 4. pl. A kind of pocket memorandum book. [1913 Webster] 5. A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague. [1913 Webster] 6. (Pharm.) A solid kind of electuary or confection, commonly made of dry ingredients with sugar, and usually formed into little flat squares; -- called also lozenge, and troche, especially when of a round or rounded form. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

lozenge n 1: a small aromatic or medicated candy 2: a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet [syn: pill, lozenge, tablet, tab]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

107 Moby Thesaurus words for "lozenge": achievement, alerion, animal charge, annulet, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms, azure, bandeau, bar, bar sinister, baton, bearings, bend, bend sinister, billet, blazon, blazonry, bolus, bordure, broad arrow, cadency mark, canton, capsule, chaplet, charge, chevron, chief, coat of arms, cockatrice, coronet, crescent, crest, cross, cross moline, crown, device, difference, differencing, eagle, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, falcon, fess, fess point, field, file, flanch, fleur-de-lis, fret, fur, fusil, garland, griffin, gules, gyron, hatchment, helmet, heraldic device, honor point, impalement, impaling, inescutcheon, label, lion, mantling, marshaling, martlet, mascle, metal, motto, mullet, nombril point, octofoil, or, ordinary, orle, pale, paly, pean, pheon, pill, purpure, quarter, quartering, rose, sable, saltire, scutcheon, shield, spread eagle, subordinary, tablet, tenne, tincture, torse, tressure, troche, unicorn, vair, vert, wreath, yale