Crossword-Solution: SCONCE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sconce | p. p. | A fortification, or work for defense; a fort. |
| Sconce | p. p. | A hut for protection and shelter; a stall. |
| Sconce | p. p. | A piece of armor for the head; headpiece; helmet. |
| Sconce | p. p. | Fig.: The head; the skull; also, brains; sense; discretion. |
| Sconce | p. p. | A poll tax; a mulct or fine. |
| Sconce | p. p. | A protection for a light; a lantern or cased support for a candle; hence, a fixed hanging or projecting candlestick. |
| Sconce | p. p. | Hence, the circular tube, with a brim, in a candlestick, into which the candle is inserted. |
| Sconce | p. p. | A squinch. |
| Sconce | p. p. | A fragment of a floe of ice. |
| Sconce | p. p. | A fixed seat or shelf. |
| Sconce | v. t. | To shut up in a sconce; to imprison; to insconce. |
| Sconce | v. t. | To mulct; to fine. |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SCONCE (5)
All stood motionless; but when the yell was again repeated, Colonel Ashton snatched a torch from the sconce, and demanding the key of the bridal-chamber from Henry, to whom, as bride’s-man, it had been entrusted, rushed thither, followed by Sir William Ashton and Lady Ashton, and one or two others, near relations of the family.
When he was fairly brought to bay, Padella turned and dealt Prince Giglio a prodigious crack over the sconce with his battle-axe, a most enormous weapon, which had cut down I don’t know how many regiments in the course of the afternoon.
She’s mine! She’s mine!’ With these triumphant expressions, he seized a hammer and dealt a heavy blow at a vice, which in his mind’s eye represented the sconce or head of Joseph Willet.
Now the first of these arrows lighted in the nape of the neck of Lord Fitzwater, and lodged itself firmly between his skin and his collar; the second rebounded with the hollow vibration of a drumstick from the shaven sconce of the abbot of Rubygill; and the third pitched perpendicularly into the centre of a venison pasty in which Robin Hood was making incision.
What, in the devil’s name, can you want with a young wife, who have one foot in flannels and the other in the grave?” “What is that to thee, sirrah varlet?” said the old knight; “stand away from the porch, or I will fracture thy sconce with my cane.” “I will not stand away from the porch,” said Robin, “unless the bride bid me, and tell me that you are her own true love.” “Speak,” said the bride’s father, in a severe tone, and with a look of significant menace.
Quotes with SCONCE (1)
Ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read, seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot. Snotgreen, bluesilver, rust: coloured signs. Limits of the diaphane. But he adds: in bodies. Then he was aware of them bodies before of them coloured. How? By knocking his sconce against them, sure. Go easy. Bald he was and a millionaire, MAESTRODI COLOR CHE SANNO. Limit of the diaphane in…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 95 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).