English-Thai Dictionary

sconce

N ป้อม เล็กๆ  ป้อมปราการ เล็ก  ที่หลบภัย  bulwark pom-lek-lek

 

sconce

N เชิงเทียน ที่ วาง อยู่ บน กำแพง หรือ กระจก อื่น  ๆ  เชิงเทียน ติด ผนัง  candle stick chong-tian-ti-wang-yu-bon-kam-pang

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SCONCE

n. 1. A fort or bulwark; a work for defense. Obs.
2. A hanging or projecting candlestick, generally with a mirror to reflect the light.
Golden sconces hang upon the walls.
3. The circular tube with a brim in a candlestick, into which the candle is inserted, that is, the support, the holder of the candle; and from this sense the candlestick, in the preceding definition, has its name.
4. A fixed seat or shelf. [Local. ]

 

SCONCE

n. 1. Sense; judgment; discretion or understanding. This sense has been in vulgar use in New England within my memory.
2. The head; a low word.
3. A mulet or fine.

 

SCONCE

v.t.To mulet; to fine. [A low word and not in use. ]

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SCONCE

Sconce, n. Etym: [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. No sconce or fortress of his raising was ever known either to have been forced, or yielded up, or quitted. Milton.

 

2. A hut for protection and shelter; a stall. One that. .. must raise a sconce by the highway and sell switches. Beau. & Fl.

 

3. A piece of armor for the head; headpiece; helmet. I must get a sconce for my head. Shak.

 

4. Fig. : The head; the skull; also, brains; sense; discretion. [Colloq. ] To knock him about the sconce with a dirty shovel. Shak.

 

5. A poll tax; a mulct or fine. Johnson.

 

6. Etym: [OF. esconse a dark lantern, properly, a hiding place. See Etymol. above. ]

 

Defn: A protection for a light; a lantern or cased support for a candle; hence, a fixed hanging or projecting candlestick. Tapers put into lanterns or sconces of several-colored, oiled paper, that the wind might not annoy them. Evelyn. Golden sconces hang not on the walls. Dryden.

 

7. Hence, the circular tube, with a brim, in a candlestick, into which the candle is inserted.

 

8. (Arch. )

 

Defn: A squinch.

 

9. A fragment of a floe of ice. Kane.

 

1 . Etym: [Perhaps a different word. ]

 

Defn: A fixed seat or shelf. [Prov. Eng. ]

 

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. ] Immure him, sconce him, barricade him in 't. Marston.

 

2. To mulct; to fine. [Obs. ] Milton.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

sconce

sconce 1 |skäns skɑns | ▶noun 1 a candle holder, or a holder of another light source, that is attached to a wall with an ornamental bracket. 2 a flaming torch or candle secured in such a holder. ORIGIN late Middle English (originally denoting a portable lantern with a screen to protect the flame ): shortening of Old French esconse ‘lantern, ’ or from medieval Latin sconsa, from Latin absconsa (laterna ) ‘dark (lantern ),’ literally ‘hidden (lantern )’ (i.e., a lantern with a device for concealing the light ), from abscondere ‘to hide. ’

 

sconce

sconce 2 |skɑns skäns | ▶noun archaic a small fort or earthwork defending a ford, pass, or castle gate. • a shelter or screen serving as protection from fire or the weather. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Dutch schans ‘brushwood, ’ from Middle High German schanze. The earliest recorded sense ‘screen, interior partition ’ derives perhaps from sconce 1; the later senses date from the late 16th cent.

 

Oxford Dictionary

sconce

sconce 1 |skɒns | ▶noun a candle holder that is attached to a wall with an ornamental bracket. • a flaming torch or candle secured in a sconce. ORIGIN late Middle English (originally denoting a portable lantern with a screen to protect the flame ): shortening of Old French esconse ‘lantern ’, or from medieval Latin sconsa, from Latin absconsa (laterna ) ‘dark (lantern )’ (i.e. a lantern with a device for concealing the light ), from abscondere ‘to hide ’.

 

sconce

sconce 2 |skɒns | ▶noun archaic a small fort or earthwork defending a ford, pass, or castle gate. • a shelter or screen from fire or the weather. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Dutch schans ‘brushwood ’, from Middle High German schanze. The earliest recorded sense ‘screen, interior partition ’ derives perhaps from sconce 1; the later senses date from the late 16th cent.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

sconce

sconce /skɑns |skɔns /名詞 C (壁に取り付けた )装飾 燭台 （しよくだい ）; 装飾電灯 .