in Heraldry, a four-cornered figure, resembling a pane of glass in old caements. See Heraldry. Though all heralds agree, that single ladies are to place their arms on lozenges, yet they differ with respect to the caules that gave rise to it. Plutarch says, in the life of Theseus, that in Megara, an ancient town of Greece, the tomb-stones under which the bodies of the Amazons lay, were shaped after that form; which some conjecture to be the cause why ladies have their arms on lozenges. S. Petra Sanda will have this shield to represent a cymbian, whereupon women used to sit and spin, or do other housewifery. Sir J. Ferne thinks it is formed from the shield called teffera, which the Romans finding unfit for war, did allow to women to place their ensigns upon, with one of its angles always uppermost.