sconce

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A fixture for a light, which holds it and provides a screen against wind or against a naked flame or lightbulb.
(RQ:Evelyn Diary)tapers put into lanterns or sconces of several-coloured, oiled paper, that the wind might not annoy them.
(quote-book)
(RQ:Telegraph)
A candlestick (holder for a candle, especially a circular tube, with a brim, into which a candle is inserted), either with a handle for carrying, or with a bracket for attaching to a wall.
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A head or a skull.
(RQ:Shakespeare Comedy of Errors)
(RQ:Shakespeare Hamlet)
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{{quote-book|en|year=1867|author=Benjamin Brierley|title=Marlocks of Merriton|page=56
A tax; a mulct or fine.
An act of sconcing; very similar to a fine at (w), though a sconce is the act of issuing a penalty rather than the penalty itself.

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To impose a fine, a forfeit, or a mulct.
{{quote-text|en|year=1898|author=Rev. A. Clark|title=University of Oxford, College Histories: Lincoln|page=73
During a meal or as part of a game, to announce some (usually outrageous) deed such that anyone who has done it must drink; similar to have never; commonly associated with crewdates; very similar to fining at (w).

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A type of small fort or other fortification, especially as built to defend a pass or ford.
(RQ:Milton History)
A hut for protection and shelter; a stall.
(RQ:Beaumont Fletcher Comedies and Tragedies) must raise a sconce by the highway and sell switches
A squinch.
A fragment of a floe of ice.
{{quote-text|en|year=1856|author=Elisha Kent Kane|title=Arctic Explorations
A fixed seat or shelf.
To shut within a sconce; to imprison.
(adj form of)