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Meaning of LOSENGER

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Los"en*ger\, n. [OF. losengier, losengeor, fr.
losengier to deceive, flatter, losenge, flattery, Pr.
lauzenga, fr. L. laus praise. Cf. {Lozenge}.]
A flatterer; a deceiver; a cozener. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
      To a fair pair of gallows, there to end their lives
      with shame, as a number of such other losengers had
      done.                                    --Holinshed.
 
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