SCONCE
\skˈɒns], \skˈɒns], \s_k_ˈɒ_n_s]\
Definitions of SCONCE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The head.
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A hut for protection and shelter; a stall.
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A piece of armor for the head; headpiece; helmet.
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Fig.: The head; the skull; also, brains; sense; discretion.
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A poll tax; a mulct or fine.
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A protection for a light; a lantern or cased support for a candle; hence, a fixed hanging or projecting candlestick.
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Hence, the circular tube, with a brim, in a candlestick, into which the candle is inserted.
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A fragment of a floe of ice.
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To shut up in a sconce; to imprison; to insconce.
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To mulct; to fine.
By Oddity Software
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The head.
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A hut for protection and shelter; a stall.
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A piece of armor for the head; headpiece; helmet.
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Fig.: The head; the skull; also, brains; sense; discretion.
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A poll tax; a mulct or fine.
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A protection for a light; a lantern or cased support for a candle; hence, a fixed hanging or projecting candlestick.
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Hence, the circular tube, with a brim, in a candlestick, into which the candle is inserted.
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A fragment of a floe of ice.
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To shut up in a sconce; to imprison; to insconce.
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To mulct; to fine.
By Noah Webster.
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A small fort; protection; shelter; an ornamental bracket, fastened to a wall, holding one or more candlesticks; colloquially, the head.
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To shelter; to settle cosily; to protect.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A bulwark: a small fort: a protective headpiece, hence the head, the skull.
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The part of a candlestick for the candle: a hanging candlestick with a mirror to reflect the light.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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n. [Dutch, German] A fortification; a fort;— a helmet;— the head; the skull; and also, brains; sense; discretion;-a protection for a light; hence, a fixed hanging or projecting candlestick;- the circular tube, with a brim, in a candlestick, into which the candle is inserted;—a mulct or fine.