Immure him, sconce him, barricade him in 't.
--Marston.
2. To mulct; to fine. [Obs.] --Milton.
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. [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.
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.
9. A fragment of a floe of ice. --Kane.
10. [Perhaps a different word.] A fixed seat or shelf. [Prov.
Eng.]