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s | sconce |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun sconce is

a light fixture or sconce can be a type of small fort or other fortification, especially as built to defend a pass or ford.

As a verb sconce is

(label) to impose a fine, a forfeit, or a mulct or sconce can be (label) to shut within a sconce; to imprison.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    sconce

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition ensconce] [http://www.alphadictionary.com/about/aboutus.html The Lexiteria & alphaDictionary Cognate with (abscond).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A light fixture.
  • * Evelyn
    • tapers put into lanterns or sconces of several-coloured, oiled paper, that the wind might not annoy them
  • * Dryden
    • Golden sconces hang not on the walls.
  • A head or a skull.
  • * Shakespeare
    • to knock him about the sconce with a dirty shovel
  • A poll tax; a mulct or fine.
    • (Johnson)
  • A piece of armour for the head; headpiece; helmet.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I must get a sconce for my head.

    See also

    *

    Verb

    (sconc)
  • (label) to impose a fine, a forfeit, or a mulct.

    • Etymology 2

    , cognate with German (m).

    Alternative forms

    * skonce

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A type of small fort or other fortification, especially as built to defend a pass or ford.
  • * Milton
    • No sconce or fortress of his raising was ever known either to have been forced, or yielded up, or quitted.
  • (label) A hut for protection and shelter; a stall.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • one that must raise a sconce by the highway and sell switches
  • The circular tube, with a brim, in a candlestick, into which the candle is inserted.
  • (label) A squinch.
  • A fragment of a floe of ice.
    • (Kane)
  • A fixed seat or shelf.
    • Derived terms
    * ensconce

    Verb

    (sconc)
  • (label) to shut within a sconce; to imprison.

    • See also

    *

    References