1. Verb form
A fortification, or work for defense; a fort.
2. Verb form
A hut for protection and shelter; a stall.
3. Verb form
A piece of armor for the head; headpiece; helmet.
4. Verb form
Fig.: The head; the skull; also, brains; sense; discretion.
5. Verb form
A poll tax; a mulct or fine.
6. Verb form
A protection for a light; a lantern or cased support for a candle; hence, a fixed hanging or projecting candlestick.
7. Verb form
Hence, the circular tube, with a brim, in a candlestick, into which the candle is inserted.
8. Verb form
A squinch.
9. Verb form
A fragment of a floe of ice.
10. Verb form
A fixed seat or shelf.
11. Verb
To shut up in a sconce; to imprison; to insconce.
12. Verb
To mulct; to fine.
13. Noun
a shelter or screen providing protection from enemy fire or from the weather
Vocabulary classified under Literature and rhetoric
14. Noun
a small fort or earthwork defending a ford, pass, or castle gate
Vocabulary classified under Engineering
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