Definitions for sconces

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sconces sconce

Spelling: [skons]

IPA: /skɒns/

Sconces is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 95 anagrams from letters in sconces (ccenoss).

Definitions for sconces

noun

1. a bracket for candles or other lights, placed on a wall, mirror, picture frame, etc.
2. the hole or socket of a candlestick, for holding the candle.
3. Fortification. a small detached fort or defense work, as to defend a pass, bridge, etc.
4. a protective screen or shelter.
5. a fine so imposed.
6. the head or skull.
7. sense or wit.

verb (used with object)

1. Fortification. to protect with a sconce.
2. Obsolete. to protect; shelter.
3. (at English universities, especially formerly) to fine (an undergraduate) for a breach of rules or etiquette.

Origin of sconces

1350-1400; Middle English sconce, sconse (Old French esconce) Medieval Latin scōnsa, aphetic variant of abscōnsa, noun use of feminine past participle of abscondere to conceal; see Examples for sconces

The candle in the sconce was six paces away from the guards.

sconce; to chaff, banter, make game of:—'None of your sconcing.'

The shutters were closed, and the sconce on the table had two lighted candles.

He placed the candle in a sconce on the wall, and then turned to the three.

I brot a candle in an' stuck it in th' sconce so 's I cud see 'er face.

If Job Davis did not write it, Mr. sconce has sworn falsely.

A thousand pities that so fine a fellow should have a sconce like a cocoanut!

The witnesses that came to the rescue of sconce; how did they rescue him?

She cleared the sconce and took down the flitches that hung from the rannel-tree to dry.

Then, there is another thing about sconce that I don't like, gentlemen.