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Definition of Sconce

1. Noun. A shelter or screen providing protection from enemy fire or from the weather.

2. Noun. A small fort or earthwork defending a ford, pass, or castle gate.

3. Noun. A candle or flaming torch secured in a sconce.

4. Noun. A decorative wall bracket for holding candles or other sources of light.

Definition of Sconce

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

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

Definition of Sconce

1. Noun. A light fixture. ¹

2. Noun. A head or a skull. ¹

3. Noun. A type of small fort or other fortification, especially as built to defend a pass or ford. ¹

4. Verb. (obsolete) to impose a fine, a forfeit, or a mulct. ¹

5. Verb. (obsolete) to shut within a sconce; to imprison. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sconce

1. to fine [v SCONCED, SCONCING, SCONCES] - See also: fine

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sconce

scomber scomberoid scombral scombrid scombrids scombriformes scombroid scombroid fish scombroid poisoning scombroids

scomfish scomfished scomfishes scomfishing scomfit sconce (current term) sconced sconces sconcheon sconcheon arch

sconcheons sconcing scone sconed scones sconing scontion scontions scoober scoobers

Literary usage of Sconce

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Shakespeare Studies, and Essay on English Dictionaries by Thomas Spencer Baynes, Lewis Campbell (1896)
"Ant. S. If you will jest with me, know my aspect, And fashion your demeanour to my looks, Or I will beat this method on your sconce. " Dro. ..."

2. Copper Work: An Illustrated Text Book for Teachers and Students in the by Augustus Foster Rose (1908)
"The shelf on which the candle socket rests is formed by bending the lower part of the sconce at right angles as shown by the dotted line. ..."

3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"... sconce, the xxij of July, 1591 vj". [This ballad in the copy that has come down to us has no imprint, and no name of Andrew White as the publisher. ..."

4. Works of the Camden Society by Camden Society (Great Britain), Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) (1899)
"reguard whereof his Majesty of France doth take care and is at the charge to maintaine the sconce till Dunkirk bee taken, to which end are sent hether 3 ..."

5. A Glossary to the Works of William Shakespeare by Alexander Dyce (1902)
"103. sconce, a round fortification: / must get a sconce for my head, Err. ii. 2. 37. [sconce has three meanings in this passage: i. head; 2. rounded fort or ..."

6. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll by Robert Green Ingersoll (1901)
"Sam Glasgow—cousin of sconce, son-in-law of Dye, brother to Tom Glasgow, ... Tom Glasgow—cousin to sconce, and Abe Wilkinson, and a brother-in-law of Moses ..."

7. Works of the Camden Society by Camden Society (Great Britain), Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) (1899)
"reguard whereof his Majesty of France doth take care and is at the charge to maintaine the sconce till Dunkirk bee taken, to which end are sent ..."

8. A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect: Explanatory, Derivative, and Critical by John Christopher Atkinson (1868)
"sconce, sb. A screen; the piece of kitchen furniture, lined with some ... To sconce or ensconce oneself is to post oneself behind a screen of some sort. ..."

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