LOZENGE

An oblique-angled parallelogram, or rhombus, formed by construcrting two equal isosceles triangles upon opposite sides of the same straight line. Lozenge. In Heraldry, a bearing in the shape of a parallelogram, with two obtuse and two acute angles. The arms of maidens and widows are borne on shields of this shape. Lozenge. In Pharmacy, a medicinal substance made up into a small cake gradually to be di olved in the mouth. Sugar, gum, and starch are the usual inert parts of lozenges; and minute quantities of active substances are added, according to the purposes for which they are intended: such as ipecacuanha or squills, for pectoral lozenges; extract of poppies or opium, for sedative lozenges; kyan pepper as a stimulant; oil of peppermint as an antispasmodic, 8cc, LUCANID^. (Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) A family dismembered from the Linnaean genus Lucanus, and including those insects which, in addition to the comprehensive characters of the original genus, present antennae strongly geniculate, glabrous, or but slightly pilose; the labrum very small, or confounded with the epistome; maxillae terminated by a membranous or coriaceous, silky, pen cill i form lobe; edentate, or with one tooth; and a ligula either entirely concealed or incorporated with the mentum, or divided into two narrow, elongated, silky lobes, extending more or le beyond I the mentum. The scutellum is situated between the [s. 698]