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n. A small defensive earthwork or fort.

n. A decorative wall bracket for holding candles or lights.

n. A flattened candlestick that has a handle.

n. Slang The human head or skull.

n. A light fixture.

n. A head or a skull.

n. A type of small fort or other fortification, especially as built to defend a pass or ford.

v. to impose a fine, a forfeit, or a mulct.

v. to shut within a sconce; to imprison.

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

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

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

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

n. A poll tax; a mulct or fine.

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

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

n. A squinch.

n. A fragment of a floe of ice.

n. A fixed seat or shelf.

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

v. To mulct; to fine.

n. A lantern with a protecting shade; a dark lantern; any lantern.

n. A candlestick having the form of a bracket projecting from a wall or column; also, a group of such candlesticks, forming, with an appliqué or flat, somewhat ornamented disk or plaque which seems to adhere to the wall, a decorative object. These were most commonly of brass during the years when sconces were most in use.

n. The socket for the candle in a candlestick of any form, especially when having a projecting rim around it.

n. A cover; a shelter; a protection; specifically, a screen or partition to cover or protect anything; a shed or hut for protection from the weather; a covered stall.

n. A work for defense, detached from the main works for some local object; a bulwark; a block-house; a fort, as for the defense of a pass or river.

n. A cover or protection for the head; a headpiece; a helmet.

n. Hence The head; the skull; the cranium, especially the top of it.

n. Brains; sense; wits; judgment or discretion.

n. A mulct; a fine. See sconce, v. t., 3.

n. A seat in old-fashioned open chimney-places; a chimney-seat.

n. A fragment of an ice-floe.

To fortify or defend with a sconce or block-house.

Same as ensconce.

To assess or tax at so much per head; mulct; fine; specifically, in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, to put the name of in the college buttery-books by way of fine; mulct in a tankard of ale or the like for some offense. See the quotations.

n. a shelter or screen providing protection from enemy fire or from the weather

n. a candle or flaming torch secured in a sconce

n. a decorative wall bracket for holding candles or other sources of light

n. a small fort or earthwork defending a ford, pass, or castle gate

"She fidgeted and her eyes joined Steph's on the sconce."

sconced    sconces    sconcing   

shelter    light source    light    wall bracket    bracket    earthwork    fortress    fort   

to build a sconce   

ensconce   

fort    stall    headpiece    helmet    sense    discretion    squinch    mulct    fine    heady   

Hans    Ponce    Renaissance    ensconce    nonce    nonchalance    ponce    renaissance    response   

gunne    stanchion    candelabrum    shipe    candlestick    candelabra    breastwork