Sconce vs Scorce - What's the difference?
sconce | scorce |
A light fixture.
* Evelyn
* Dryden
A head or a skull.
* Shakespeare
A poll tax; a mulct or fine.
A piece of armour for the head; headpiece; helmet.
* Shakespeare
(label) to impose a fine, a forfeit, or a mulct.
A type of small fort or other fortification, especially as built to defend a pass or ford.
* Milton
(label) A hut for protection and shelter; a stall.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
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.
A fixed seat or shelf.
(label) to shut within a sconce; to imprison.
As nouns the difference between sconce and scorce
is that 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 while scorce is (obsolete) barter.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.sconce
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Editionensconce] [http://www.alphadictionary.com/about/aboutus.html The Lexiteria & alphaDictionaryCognate with (abscond).
Noun
(en noun)- tapers put into lanterns or sconces of several-coloured, oiled paper, that the wind might not annoy them
- Golden sconces hang not on the walls.
- to knock him about the sconce with a dirty shovel
- (Johnson)
- I must get a sconce for my head.
See also
*Verb
(sconc)Alternative forms
* skonceNoun
(en noun)- No sconce or fortress of his raising was ever known either to have been forced, or yielded up, or quitted.
- one that must raise a sconce by the highway and sell switches
- (Kane)
