sconce

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A fixture for a light, which holds it and provides a screen against wind or against a naked flame or lightbulb.

   “[…]tapers put into lanterns or sconces of several-coloured, oiled paper, that the wind might not annoy them.”

2. isim 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.

   “Taking the candle […] she stood with the little flat brass sconce in her hand.”

3. isim A head or a skull.

   “Novv as I am a Chriſtian anſvver me, / In vvhat ſafe place you haue beſtovv'd my monie; / Or I ſhall breake that merrie ſconce of yours / That ſtands on tricks, vvhen I am vndiſpos'd: / VVhere is the thouſand Markes thou hadſt of me?”

4. isim A poll tax; a mulct or fine.

   “I'll gladly pay a sconce”

5. isim An act of sconcing; very similar to a fine at Cambridge University, though a sconce is the act of issuing a penalty rather than the penalty itself.

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6. fiil To impose a fine, a forfeit, or a mulct.

   “The Rector sconced him in the buttery-book, but Webberly “wiped it off, with irreverent and unbeseeming language.” For this, he had to apologise, and go without his commons for three months.”

7. fiil During a meal or as part of a drinking game, to announce some (usually outrageous) deed such that anyone who has done it must drink; similar to I have never; commonly associated with crewdates; very similar to fining at Cambridge University.

   “I sconce anyone who has ever…”

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

   “No sconce or fortress of his raising was ever known either to have been forced, or yielded up, or quitted.”

9. isim A hut for protection and shelter; a stall.

   “one that […] must raise a sconce by the highway and sell switches”

10. isim A squinch.
11. isim A fragment of a floe of ice.

    “Just then, a broad sconce-piece or low water-washed berg came driving up from the southward. The thought flashed upon me of one of our escapes in Melville Bay; and as the sconce moved rapidly close alongside us, McGary managed to plant an anchor on its slope and hold on to it by a whale-line.”

12. isim A fixed seat or shelf.
13. fiil To shut within a sconce; to imprison.