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Määritelmät

Substantiivi

1. A fixture for a light, which holds it and provides a screen against wind or against a naked flame or lightbulb.
2. A head or a skull.
3. A type of small fort or other fortification, especially as built to defend a pass or ford.
4. A candlestick (holder for a candle, especially a circular tube, with a brim, into which a candle is inserted), either with a handle for carrying, or with a bracket for attaching to a wall.
5. A poll tax; a mulct or fine.
6. (obsolete) A hut for protection and shelter; a stall.
7. (Oxford University slang) An act of sconcing; very similar to a fine at Cambridge University, though a sconce is the act of issuing a penalty rather than the penalty itself.
8. (architecture) A squinch.
9. A fragment of a floe of ice.
10. A fixed seat or shelf.

Verbi

1. (obsolete) To impose a fine, a forfeit, or a mulct.
2. (obsolete) to shut within a sconce; to imprison.
3. (Oxford University slang) During a meal or as part of a drinking game, to announce some (usually outrageous) deed such that anyone who has done it must drink; similar to I have never; commonly associated with crewdates; very similar to fining at Cambridge University.