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Sconce

Sconce (sconce)
n.(?)
Sconce
[D. schans, OD. schantse, perhaps from OF. esconse a hiding place, akin to esconser to hide, L. absconsus, p. p. of abscondere. See Abscond, and cf. Ensconce, Sconce a ca
  1. A fortification, or work for defense; a fort.

    No sconce or fortress of his raising was ever known either to have been forced, or yielded up, or quitted. Milton.

  2. A hut for protection and shelter; a stall.

    One that . . . must raise a sconce by the highway and sell switches. Beau. *** Fl.

  3. A piece of armor for the head] headpiece; helmet.

    I must get a sconce for my head. Shak.

  4. Fig.: The head; the skull; also, brains; sense; discretion.
    [Colloq.]

    To knock him about the sconce with a dirty shovel. Shak.

  5. A poll tax; a mulct or fine.
    Johnson.
  6. A protection for a light; a lantern or cased support for a candle; hence, a fixed hanging or projecting candlestick.

    Tapers put into lanterns or sconces of several- colored, oiled paper, that the wind might not annoy them. Evelyn.

    Golden sconces hang not on the walls. Dryden.

  7. Hence, the circular tube, with a brim, in a candlestick, into which the candle is inserted.
  8. A squinch.
  9. A fragment of a floe of ice.
    Kane.
  10. A fixed seat or shelf.
    [Prov. Eng.]

Sconce

Sconce (sconce)
v. t.
Sconce
  1. To shut up in a sconce] to imprison; to insconce.
    [Obs.]

    Immure him, sconce him, barricade him in 't. Marston.

  2. To mulct; to fine.
    [Obs.] Milton.












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