Sconce

[sconce]

A sconce is a wall mounted candle holder or light fixture. The hallway in your house might be lit by an electric sconce on the wall.

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A fortification, or work for defense; a fort.

Noun
a forbidding stronghold

Noun
a candlestick with a flat side to be hung on the wall

p. p.
A fortification, or work for defense; a fort.

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

p. p.
A piece of armor for the head; headpiece; helmet.

p. p.
Fig.: The head; the skull; also, brains; sense; discretion.

p. p.
A poll tax; a mulct or fine.

p. p.
A protection for a light; a lantern or cased support for a candle; hence, a fixed hanging or projecting candlestick.

p. p.
Hence, the circular tube, with a brim, in a candlestick, into which the candle is inserted.

p. p.
A squinch.

p. p.
A fragment of a floe of ice.

p. p.
A fixed seat or shelf.

v. t.
To shut up in a sconce; to imprison; to insconce.

v. t.
To mulct; to fine.

Sconce

Sconce , n. [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 candlestick.] 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.
2. A hut for protection and shelter; a stall.
One that . . . must raise a sconce by the highway and sell switches.
3. A piece of armor for the head; headpiece; helmet.
I must get a sconce for my head.
4. Fig.: The head; the skull; also, brains; sense; discretion. [Colloq.]
To knock him about the sconce with a dirty shovel.
5. A poll tax; a mulct or fine. Johnson. 6. [OF. esconse a dark lantern, properly, a hiding place. See Etymol. above.] 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.
Golden sconces hang not on the walls.
7. Hence, the circular tube, with a brim, in a candlestick, into which the candle is inserted. 8. (Arch.) A squinch. 9. A fragment of a floe of ice. Kane. 10. [Perhaps a different word.] A fixed seat or shelf. [Prov. Eng.]

Sconce

Sconce, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sconced ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sconcing.] 1. To shut up in a sconce; to imprison; to insconce. [Obs.]
Immure him, sconce him, barricade him in 't.
2. To mulct; to fine. [Obs.] Milton.

A fortification, or work for defense; a fort.

To shut up in a sconce; to imprison; to insconce.

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