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| sconce | |
| 1. n. A light fixture. |  |
| 2. n. A head or a skull. | |
| 3. n. A poll tax; a mulct or fine. | |
| 4. n. A piece of armour for the head; headpiece; helmet. | |
| 5. v. (obsolete) to impose a fine, a forfeit, or a mulct. | |
| 6. n. A type of small fort or other fortification, especially as built to defend a pass or ford. | |
| 7. n. (obsolete) A hut for protection and shelter; a stall. | |
| 8. n. The circular tube, with a brim, in a candlestick, into which the candle is inserted. | |
| 9. n. (architecture) A squinch. | |
| 10. n. A fragment of a floe of ice. | |
| 11. n. A fixed seat or shelf. | |
| 12. v. (obsolete) to shut within a sconce; to imprison. | |
