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lozen Chiefly Sc.|ˈlɒzən|
Forms: 4–5 los(e)yn, lozeyn, loysyn, 6 losan(e, losin, 7 losien, lossen, 9 losen, 8–9 lozen.
[? a. OF. *loseigne (once loseingne), var. of losange lozenge n.]
†1. Cookery. ? A thin cake of pastry. Obs.
c1390Form of Cury (1780) 21 Take obleys oþer wafrous [wafrons] in stede of lozeyns and cowche in dysshes. Ibid. 46, 61, 62. c 1420 Liber Cocorum (1862) 40 Lay þer in Þy loseyns abofe þe chese with wynne..Þose loysyns er harde to make in fay.
†2. A lozenge-shaped figure. Obs.
1542Inv. R. Wardr. (1815) 60 Item ane uther dyamont ground oure with losanis ennamelit with the freir knott. 1593Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1816) IV. 48/2 On the vther syde ane losane with ane thrissill on euery nuke.
3. A (lozenge-shaped) pane of glass.
1665Sir J. L. Fountainhall Jrnl. (1900) 114 One of his servantes brook a lossen. a1813A. Wilson 2nd Ep. to J. Dobie Poet. Wks. (1846) 51 While rains are blatt'ring frae the south, And down the lozens seeping. 1824Scott Redgauntlet let. i, And who taught me to pin a losen, head a bicker, and hold the bannets? Alan once more. 1865C. S. Grahame Mystifications 16 Lord Gillies was reminded of the time when he was an ill prettie laddie, and of breaking the lozens of one of her windows. 1896N. Munro Lost Pibroch (1902) 40 The window-lozens winked with the light of big peat-fires within.
b. transf. A glass of a pair of spectacles.
1834M. Scott Cruise Midge xi. (1842) 200 Auld Durie Squake..caught such a bash on the nose that baith the lozens were dang out of his barnacles.
4. attrib. and Comb.
a. attrib. or adj. ? Embroidery with lozenge patterns.
1500–20Dunbar Poems xiv. 19 Sic losin sarkis, so mony glengoir markis Within this land was nevir hard nor sene. 1507Ld. Treas. Acc. Scotl. (1901) III. 253 Ane gret losin doublat for the king. 1546Extracts Aberd. Reg. (1844) I. 239 Tua losin sarkis.
b. Comb., as † lozen-wise adv.
1625in Rymer Fœdera XVIII. 236 Dyamonds cutt lozen wise.
Hence ˈlozened a. = lozenged. Also ˈlozenless a. rare.
1770Bp. Forbes Jrnl. (1886) 306 A circular Window, lozened by Arches of polished Stone meeting in the Centre. 1898N. Munro John Splendid xiv, The place lay tenantless and melancholy,..the windows lozenless. |