Of the fusil Nisbet writes: "The fusil is another Rhombular figure like the lozenge, but more long than broad, and its upper and lower points are more acute than the two side points." He adds that: "Chassanus and others make their sides round, as in his description of them: 'Fusae sunt acutae in superiore et inferiore partibus, et rotundae ex utroque latere;' which description has occasioned some English heralds, when so painted or engraven, to call them millers' picks, as Sir John Boswell, in his _Concords of Armory_, and others, to call them weavers' shuttles." Menestrier says of lozenges: "Lozange est une figure de quatre pointes, dont deux sont un peu plus etendues que les autres, et assise sur une de ces pointes. C'est le Rhomb des mathematiciens, et les quarreaux des vitres ordinaires en ont la figure." Of fusils: "Fusees sont plus etendues en longue que les lozanges, et affilees en point comme les fuseaux. Elles sont pieces d'architecture ou l'on se sert pour ornement de fusees et de pesons." The celebrated _Boke of St. Albans_ (1486) thus describes the difference between a lozenge and fusil: "Knaw ye y^e differans betwix ffusillis and losyng. Wherefore it is to be knaw that ffusillis ar euermore long, also fusyllis ar strattyr ouerwart in the baly then ar mascules. And mascules ar larger ou'wartt in the baly, and shorter in length than be fusyllis." The mascle is afterwards explained to be the lozenge pierced. Again: "And ye most take thys for a general enformacion and instruccion that certanli losyng eu'more stand upright ... and so withowte dowte we have the differans of the foresayd signes, that is to wete of mascules and losynges." Dallaway, an elegant writer on Heraldry, says: "Of the lozenge the following extraordinary description is given in a MS. of Glover, 'Lozenga est pars vitri in vitrea fenestra.' But it may be more satisfactory to observe that the lozenge, with its diminutive, are given to females instead of an escocheon for the insertion of their armorial bearings, one of which is supposed to have been a cushion of that shape, and the other is evidently the spindle used in spinning; both demonstrative of the sedentary employments of women. On a very splendid brass for Eleanor, relict of Thomas of Woodstocke, who died 1384, she is delineated as resting her head upon two cushions, the upper of which is placed lozenge-wise."--P. 140. The above is taken from his _Miscellaneous Observations on Heraldic Ensigns_, the following from the body of his great work: