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Sconced vs Sconces - What's the difference?

sconced | sconces |

As verbs the difference between sconced and sconces

is that sconced is past tense of sconce while sconces is third-person singular of sconce.

As a noun sconces is

plural of sconce.

sconced

English

Verb

(head)
  • (sconce)

    • 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

    sconces

    English

    Noun

    (head) plural
  • * {{quote-book, year=1960
    • , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter V , passage=Owing possibly to some flaw in his mental make-up, Uncle Tom has been collecting old silver since I was so high [...]. I knew all about that collection of his, not only because I had had to listen to him for hours on the subject of sconces , foliation, ribbon wreaths in high relief and gadroon borders, but because I had what you might call a personal interest in it, once having stolen an eighteenth-century cow-creamer for him.}}

    Verb

    (head)
  • (sconce)