sconce 音标拼音: [sk'ɑns]
n . 突出的烛台,头,头盖
vt . 遮蔽
突出的烛台,头,头盖遮蔽
sconce n 1 :
a shelter or screen providing protection from enemy fire or from the weather 2 :
a small fort or earthwork defending a ford ,
pass ,
or castle gate 3 :
a candle or flaming torch secured in a sconce 4 :
a decorative wall bracket for holding candles or other sources of light Sconce \
Sconce \,
n . [
D .
schans ,
OD .
schantse ,
perhaps from OF .
esconse a hiding place ,
akin to esconser to hide ,
L .
absconsus ,
p .
p .
of abscondere .
See {
Abscond },
and cf .
{
Ensconce }, {
Sconce }
a candlestick .]
1 .
A fortification ,
or work for defense ;
a fort .
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No sconce or fortress of his raising was ever known either to have been forced ,
or yielded up ,
or quitted . --
Milton .
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2 .
A hut for protection and shelter ;
a stall .
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One that . . .
must raise a sconce by the highway and sell switches . --
Beau . &
Fl .
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3 .
A piece of armor for the head ;
headpiece ;
helmet .
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I must get a sconce for my head . --
Shak .
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4 .
Fig .:
The head ;
the skull ;
also ,
brains ;
sense ;
discretion . [
Colloq .]
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To knock him about the sconce with a dirty shovel .
--
Shak .
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5 .
A poll tax ;
a mulct or fine . --
Johnson .
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6 . [
OF .
esconse a dark lantern ,
properly ,
a hiding place .
See Etymol .
above .]
A protection for a light ;
a lantern or cased support for a candle ;
hence ,
a fixed hanging or projecting candlestick .
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Tapers put into lanterns or sconces of several -
colored ,
oiled paper ,
that the wind might not annoy them . --
Evelyn .
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Golden sconces hang not on the walls . --
Dryden .
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7 .
Hence ,
the circular tube ,
with a brim ,
in a candlestick ,
into which the candle is inserted .
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8 . (
Arch .)
A squinch .
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9 .
A fragment of a floe of ice . --
Kane .
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10 . [
Perhaps a different word .]
A fixed seat or shelf . [
Prov .
Eng .]
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Sconce \
Sconce \,
v .
t . [
imp . &
p .
p . {
Sconced };
p .
pr . &
vb .
n .
{
Sconcing }.]
1 .
To shut up in a sconce ;
to imprison ;
to insconce . [
Obs .]
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Immure him ,
sconce him ,
barricade him in '
t .
--
Marston .
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2 .
To mulct ;
to fine . [
Obs .] --
Milton .
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Squinch \
Squinch \ (
skw [
i ^]
nch ),
n . [
Corrupted fr .
sconce .]
(
Arch .)
A small arch thrown across the corner of a square room to support a superimposed mass ,
as where an octagonal spire or drum rests upon a square tower ; --
called also {
sconce },
and {
sconcheon }.
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103 Moby Thesaurus words for "
sconce ":
abatis ,
advanced work ,
amercement ,
balistraria ,
bank ,
banquette ,
barbed -
wire entanglement ,
barbican ,
barricade ,
barrier ,
bartizan ,
bastion ,
battlement ,
bean ,
belfry ,
bracket ,
brain ,
breastwork ,
brow ,
bulwark ,
candelabrum ,
candlestand ,
candlestick ,
casemate ,
chandelier ,
cheval -
de -
frise ,
chump ,
circumvallation ,
conk ,
contravallation ,
counterscarp ,
crown ,
curtain ,
damages ,
demibastion ,
dike ,
distraint ,
distress ,
dome ,
drawbridge ,
earthwork ,
encephalon ,
enclosure ,
entanglement ,
escarp ,
escarpment ,
escheat ,
escheatment ,
fence ,
fieldwork ,
fine ,
forfeit ,
forfeiture ,
fortalice ,
fortification ,
gas fixture ,
girandole ,
glacis ,
gray matter ,
head ,
headpiece ,
lamp holder ,
lampstand ,
light fixture ,
light socket ,
loophole ,
lunette ,
machicolation ,
mantelet ,
merlon ,
mound ,
mulct ,
noddle ,
noggin ,
noodle ,
organ of thought ,
outwork ,
palisade ,
parados ,
parapet ,
pate ,
poll ,
portcullis ,
postern gate ,
rampart ,
ravelin ,
redan ,
redoubt ,
ridge ,
sally port ,
scarp ,
seat of thought ,
sensation ,
sensorium ,
sensory ,
stockade ,
tenaille ,
torch holder ,
torch staff ,
vallation ,
vallum ,
wall bracket ,
work
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